Listed Building: (105733)

TRENT ST 5818-5918 RIGG LANE (west side) 18/192 No. 42 (formerly listed as nos. 42 and 43) 31.7.61 GV II Former farmhouse and byre, now cottage and smithy. Mid C16 with C17 and C18 alterations. Dressed stone walls. Thatch roof to cottage, clay-tile roofs over right hand end of cottage, and over smithy. Two storeys. 4 windows, straight-chamfered stone mullions, left and right of door, with separate labels over, iron casements with lead lights. Ovolo-moulded wood mullions in pegged, wood frames, iron casements with lead lights. Wood lintels, at left ground and left end, first floor, C17. All windows of 3-lights width. Front door, right of centre, to tiled part, plank with a wood frame and weatherboard, C19. Attached smithy at left hand end. Dressed stone walls and Roman-tile roof. One storey. Large stable-door at right end, plank with wood frame and lintel. Large sliding plank door at left hand end, this part represents an extension to the byre. Interior: left hand room has compartmented ceiling with straight-chamfered beams and wall-plates, cut on soffits. Open fireplace with stone jambs, hacked about, and straight- chamfered stone lintel, this backs onto a cross-passage with flagstones. Right hand room has C18 fireplace with cambered brick arch and bread oven in right hand side. Roof: left end under thatch has jointed-cruck trusses and smoke-blackened timbers, former open-hall. In the C19 the cross-passage was the shared corridor access to two cottages, one each side. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 260(20)). Listing NGR: ST5968218674

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Sep 5 2019 10:15AM