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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26448037

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2