(Grade II listed in 1956 as "no's 6 and 8")
(Grade II listed in 1956 as "no's 6 and 8")
This is another of the Abbotsbury houses that has been created by joining two former cottages into one, which may go some way to explain the very much higher population in the village a century ago. In this case, No 6 was already joined up to No 8 (formerly entered through the half-glassed door on the left) when the present occupants moved here in the late 1990's, but the whole property was considerably modernised at that time. Although of an age with the rest of Rodden Row, it is not clear why thatch has given way to slate for these end three cottages, though it has been said that a roof blaze prompted the change.
The bag hanging on the door of no 6 in the left-hand photograph may illustrate the trusting village habit of leaving gifts ~ fruit, vegetables or even fish ~ for one's neighbours in that rather public manner.