Listed Building record MDO9231 - 15 High Street, Puddletown

Detached cottage, also known as Ashton Cottage, built in the eighteenth century. The building has roughcast cob walls and a thatched roof - part replaced at rear in corrugated iron.

SY 75609433. Ashton Cottage, Puddletown, set back from the south side of the road, has some cob walling and was built late in the 18th century. DOE refer to the cottage as two storeys high, plastered and thatched with some weather boarding. (Shown but not described as Ashton Cottage on OS 25" 1974 at SY 75609434:- numbered No 15, High Street). <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 228 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 18th century and of two storeys, or one storey with attics; the walls are of brick and the roofs are thatched. … (8) Ashton Cottage (75609433), set back from the S. side of the road, 275 yds. W. of the church, has some cob walling; it was built late in the 18th century.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454933 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2023 4:20PM