Description

In the entry for:

SU 00 NE VERWOOD HOWE LANE

6/96 Oak Tree Cottage

II

The description shall be amended to read:

Detached cottage. Probably C18, altered and extended C20. Plastered cob walls, thatched roof, hipped at right end; rebuilt brick stack at left end. One storey and attic. 2 bays, with side outshut additions and rear wing and outshut additions. Central board door in added open porch with hipped, thatched, catslide roof. Flanking 2-light wooden casement windows on each floor, those on upper floor in eyebrow dormers. Left-hand outshut c.1960 with Welsh slate roof, right-hand outshut c.1983 with pantile roof, neither of special interest. Rear: right-hand wing c.1960, left-hand wing and rear outshut c.1983, all with pantile roofs and not of special interest. Main range has one eyebrow dormer (with C20 casement). Interior: main range has large open fireplace with timber lintel; old beams and joists; mortices in soffit of cross-beam indicate position of former partition between main, left-hand, room and smaller room on right; original cob rear wall survives within additions; on attic floor eaves plates, crude log purlins and one principal rafter roof truss are visible. (RCHM Monument 44. Dorset vol. V).

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VERWOOD SU 00 NE HOWE LANE

6/96 Oak Tree Cottage

II

Detached cottage. Probably C18. Plastered cob walls, thatched roof, hipped at right end; brick stack at left end. One storey and attic. Lean-to at left end, with plastered walls and slate roof. Lean-to at right end, with plastered walls and pantiled roof. 2 single storey gabled wings at rear, with plastered walls and pantiled roofs. In main building, ledged door in open porch with hipped thatched catslide roof. Ground floor has 2 plain casements. Attic has 2 dormers with similar casements. Internally, large open fireplace with timber lintel. Some exposed ceiling beams. (R.C.H.M. Monument 44. Dorset Vol V).

Listing NGR: SU0844608084

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)