Listed Building: HONEYCOMBE COTTAGE (108306)

SY 8494 BERE REGIS SITTERTON, SOUTH SIDE 13/30 No 18(Honeycombe Cottage) 20/11/59 GV II Detached house. Originally a C16 3-bay open-hall house. Hall floored over and chimney inserted c1600, kitchen and outhouse added on east in C18. Walls of original section of stone and flint - part plastered. C18 additions of plastered cob. Half-hipped thatched roof. Brick stacks each end of original section and in C18 block. One storey and attics. Brick porch with hipped thatched roof and panelled door. Ground floor has 2 horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars and small casement in blocked door opening. Attic has 3 dormers, 2 with glazing bars and one with remains of lead lights. Central dormer - above porch - has hipped roof. C18 block has 2 small casement windows. Roof of jointed cruck construction - shows signs of smoke-blackening for its full length. West ground floor room has 2 chamfered ceiling beams. Centre room has intersecting deep chamfered ceiling beams. East room has large open fireplace with timber lintol and jamb. Smaller open fireplace in C18 kitchen. RCHM Monument 34. Listing NGR: SY8410694970

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