Listed Building record MDO5167 - Temple Cottage, Todber

Fifteenth century house, extensively altered in the seventeenth century with further nineteenth and twentieth century alterations. Built in coursed, squared rubble (local limestone) with a gable-ended, thatched roof and brick end stack.

'(5) TEMPLE'S COTTAGE (80462062), of two storeys, with rubble walls and a thatched roof, appears to be largely of the 17th century, but the N. wall is part of an earlier, probably 15th-century building, reused. The plan is of class S., with N. and S. doorways into the unheated W. room. In the S. front the doorway is modern; beside it on the E., a casement window of three square-headed lights with hollow-chamfered stone mullions gives light to the heated E. room; in the upper storey are three similar windows of one and of two lights. In the N. front a mediavel stone doorway, now blocked, has a chamfered two-centred head and continous jambs; adjacent on the W. is a square headed loop with a chamfered surround; a large stone in the eastern part of the wall is part of another window. The gabled E. wall has a two-light window, as before, in the upper storey; the masonary is of large rubble blocks, but the chimneystack is modern. The gabled W. wall is partly masked by an adjacent building, but projecting at first-floor level are two rounded stone corbels, such as might originally have supported the plate of a lean-to roof.

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Jul 30 2012 4:10PM