Listed Building record MDO9328 - Hardy's Cottage, Stinsford

An isolated cottage, built in the late eighteenth century, noted for being the birthplace and childhood home of the author Thomas Hardy. The building has walls of brick, partly rendered, and a thatched roof. Now owned by the National Trust.

SY 7284 9249. A two-storeyed, brick built cottage with thatched roof at Higher Bockhampton, probably dates from the late 18th century andis noted as the birthplace of Thomas Hardy. <2>

SY 728 925. Hardy's Cottage, Higher Bockhampton is a small thatched house, the birthplace of Thomas Hardy in 1840.<3>

No change (see ground photograph). <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 7284 9250) Hardy's Birthplace (NT) (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 256 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(8) Cottage (72849249) at Higher Bockhampton, 1½ m. N.E. of the church, is two-storied with brick walls, partly rendered in the upper storey, and with a thatched roof. It was probably built late in the 18th century and is noted as the birthplace of Thomas Hardy. '

<3> National Trust, 1973, List of sites on National Trust land in Dorset, 68 (Unpublished document). SDO12976.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 29-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 2K/07523 (Index). SDO14738.

THOMAS HARDYS COTTAGE

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF110930 (Index). SDO14738.

England's Landscapes

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455078 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 2 2023 7:14PM