Listed Building record MDO9259 - Tudor Cottage, Puddletown

A house dated 1573. The building has walls of banded flint and stone and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include open fireplaces and ceiling beams.

Tudor Cottage, Puddletown, adjoining the north side of the cottage at SY 75769439, has bonded flint and squared rubble walls with ashlar dressings and thatched roof. The main range was probably built in 1573, as the inscribed datestone over the south window suggest. There are modern additions of the west side, and the upper part of the east front is probably restoration work of the 19th century. <1>

(Not described as 'Tudor Cottage' on OS 25" 1974). <2>

<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. … (15) Tudor Cottage, adjoining the foregoing on the N., has walls of banded flint and squared rubble with ashlar dressings, and a thatched roof. The main range was probably built in 1573 and there are modern additions on the W. The E. front is of two bays with a central doorway. The doorway has a moulded four-centred head and continuous jambs with scroll stops; on either side is a window of four hollow-chamfered square-headed lights under a label with returned stops; a stone over the S. window is inscribed 'R.B. 1573'. The upper part of the E. front, with two three-light windows, is probably restoration work of the 19th century. The gabled N. wall has a small mullioned and transomed 19th-century window; the S. wall is masked by an adjacent house, and the W. wall is masked by modern additions. Inside, a central through-passage, now occupied by the stairs which are secondary, leads to a blocked W. doorway; the passage walls are not original and there is insufficient evidence to determine the original ground plan; however the fireplaces show that there must always have been two rooms. The N. room has a fireplace at the centre of the N. wall, with chamfered stone jambs corbelled out at the top to receive a chamfered stone bressummer with rounded shoulders; the ceiling has two stop-chamfered beams and there is a blocked doorway in the W. wall. The S. room has a fireplace in the S. wall, similar to that of the N. room except that the bressummer is of wood; again there are two stop-chamfered beams. A blocked doorway in the upper storey has a four-centred head.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25 inch scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO18020.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454934 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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