Description

ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS ABBEY STREET, (west side)

11/50 Nos. 3 and 5 (The
26.1.56 Pitchmarket and Abbey
Cottage).

GV I

Two abbey tenements (shops), now private houses. Early C16.
Knapped flint and dressed stone walls, to cill level. Box-
framed timbering, with plasterwork covering wattle-and-daub.
Woodwork exposed. Stone slate roof (continuous) with stone
gable-coping at left hand. Stacks: stone, rebuilt at left
hand gable; C20 brick on ridge centre; brick on ridge at
party wall with Abbey Cottage; at right hand party wall
of Abbey Cottage. Stone corbelled wall exposed (fire-break)
at right party wall of Abbey Cottage; this has moulded
paterae in the hollow chamfers. Two storeys, with continuous
jetty to upper storey. 6 windows in total (first floor).
Pitchmarket: left ground has 4 iron casements with lead
lights, grouped in two's, with rebuilt wooden framing and two
4-centred wood arches over each pair. Right ground: 4 iron
casements with lead lights, with 4-centred arch to each, much
renewed woodwork. 4 braces to the jetty, first floor. 4-light,
4-light, 2-light small canted bay window, all iron casements and
lead lights, placed within the framing. Door, left of centre,
plank-and-muntin studded, C19. Moulded ogival wooden head with
2 recessed quatrefoils, C16. Abbey Cottage: with narrow ground
floor passage between it and Pitchmarket. Three-light wood-
framed and transomed (ground floor) windows, C20 frames. Iron
casements with lead lights. Top right window is of 2 lights.
Doors: left hand end,plank-and-muntin studded; front door,
right of centre, plank-and-muntin studded, C20. Rear extensions
to both houses, No. 3 in brick, c C19. No. 5 in rubble-stone,
c C19. Interior: No. 3,considerably altered retains hollow
chamfered ceiling-beam. Stone fireplace, with chamfered jambs
and four-centred head, spice cupboard in left jamb, C16. Smaller
open fireplace above in first floor room. Roof-construction:
4 jointed-cruck trusses survive, short cruck-posts rest on
jetty-beams.

(RCHM Dorset 1,p80(5))

Listing NGR: ST6656601209

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532431

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version