Description

DORCHESTER HIGH STREET
SU5794 (West side)
5/85 No.39
18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Icknield
(Two Cottages))

GV II

House. Late medieval, remodelled and extended early C18. Rendered timber
framing; old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stack. 2-unit lobby-entry plan
with rear wing. 2 storeys. 2-window front has plank door, with C20 canopy on
shaped brackets, a 12-pane sash, to left, and a tripartite sash, to right; at
first floor are leaded casements of 2 and 3 lights. Hipped-roofed rear wing has
further leaded casements. Interior: back-to-back open fireplaces; windbraces of
lower medieval roof. Noted as originally 2 of a row of 3 medieval tenements.
(M. Airs "The Secular Buildings of Dorchester", Dorchester through the Ages,
1985)

Listing NGR: SU5778894268

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26299949

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