Description

ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS DUCK STREET, (east street)

11/76 Forge Cottage
26.1.56
GV II

Attached Cottage and former School House, at right angles. Cl7
with C18 refenestration to front. Rubble-stone walls, rendered
and painted cream. Thatch roof with decorative block ridging.
Brick stack, at left of centre ridge, and at junction of the
two ranges. 2 storeys. 3 windows, sashes with glazing-bars,
flush wooden frames. Front door, right of centre, with 4
fielded panels and 2 top lights. Bracketed open wood pediment
with dentil cornice, C19, architrave cut away, perhaps re-used.
Rear of cottage along Mill Lane, with datestone of 1792. Same
materials, no render. Two storeys. Two windows, 3-light cast-
iron casements with glazing-bars, wooden lintels. Two plank
doors towards left hand end.

(RCHM Dorset I, p81(20))

Listing NGR: ST6644301187

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26412759

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)