Listed Building record MDO14036 - Abbey Dairy House, Church Street, Abbotsbury

Monastic gatehouse, now private house. Late fourteenth century, converted and extended in seventeenth century at rear and extended to north in nineteenth century. Ashlar stone walls, with ashlar buttress at left hand corner, and on end wall. Rubble blocking of seventeenth century to the main 4- centred gateway. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings to the main range.

Dairy House. A blocked up archway in front of the house has given rise to the suggestion that here was a gatehouse leading to the pasture and gardens at the back known as Broad Gardens. The south gable end of the house is of the same date as the west gable of the Barn. <1> Additonal Reference) <2> The Inner Gatehouse of the abbey stands on the west side of the roadway and is now adapted as a house. It appears to be of the 14th century and is a rectangular building gabled to the north and south. The gatehouse itself occupied the south part with the porter's lodge to the north. the east face retains a number of original features, but a 17th century wing blocks the west archway. <4> Known as Abbey Dairy House. Description in Authy 1 correct. The east front has a large blocked up archway and a small window which retains some tracery. See ground photograph. The west wing conceals the archway on that side. <5> Abbey Dairy. This house incorporates one of the Abbey gatehouses of early 15th century date with 17th century west wing and 18th century addition on north. The main archway with smaller doorway are visible on east but now blocked. Coped gables. Stone and brick stacks. A two-light medieval window on east. <6>

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