Description

SY 5195/5196 POWERSTOCK NETTLECOMBE
11-11-1966
11/210 Horse Shoe Cottage
and Ideal Cottage (formerly
listed as Horse Shoe
GV II Cottages)

Two attached Cottages, formerly a single farmhouse. Dated I.H. 1698
over front door. Ashlar stone walls, with hollow-chamfered plinth.
Plain tile roof. Brick stacks at left hand party wall, centre (away
from cross-passage), right hand gable end. 2 storeys. 4 windows,
3-light stone mullions, hollow-chamfered. Continuous moulded plat-
band projects forward to form a classical cornice label over each
ground floor window. Mouldings of plat band and labels are of good
quality and differ. Oval window, original, over front door. Moulded
stone frame and sunk relief in the spandrels. 2 serpent-heads to
inner band of decoration. Datestone in sunk relief with form of
chalice framing date, and lily beneath. Doorways: (Horse Shoe)
original entrance to farmhouse, hollow-chamfered with depressed-arch
in a square head. Plank door, C19. (Ideal), doorway knocked through
between windows 3 and 4, plank C19.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 185(13).

Listing NGR: SY5188895622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521637

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)