SDO10043 - Court House Cellar, 6 Fordington Green, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset. Building Survey and Recording, July 2006

‘A large brick cellar beneath the garden of Greenhill House, 6 Fordington Green, Dorchester was the subject of a rapid survey by Terrain Archaeology in July 2006. The cellar comprised two brick vaults, one smaller and slightly offset from the centreline of the other, but both are likely to be of one period of construction. The west end has been blocked, indicating the cellar originally continued further to the west. There is an entrance and a chute to the south and another opening to the east. The west part has a cobbled and stone flag floor, but the east part may have had its floor removed. Documentary evidence suggests that the cellar was constructed in 1810 by William Bower, as part of a brew house. The brew house was demolished in the second half of the 19th century. Part of a Roman cemetery was found during the construction of the cellar.’