(Listed Grade III in 1973, and now listed Grade II)
(Listed Grade III in 1973, and now listed Grade II)
Described as "derelict" in the Appreciation, but with a note that "since survey the house has been 'done up'" ~ according to the Inventory, the 18th century house has "modern brick segmented heads" to the windows. The garden wall in the right-hand photograph was rebuilt in 2004.
Thirty years after the Appreciation, the Estate's care for its Abnotsbury cottages was highlighted in the Daily Telegraph as one of the reasons why buyers should look at this house: as to "why not", the paper bluntly warned "full of tourists in the summer ..." and concluded with an awful pun ~ "would suit weekender who likes swanning about in the country."
In the 1920's, the cottage belonged to a Mr Dunford (a relation of the thatcher who worked from the "Basket Factory" further down Back Street), who acted as coal merchant to the village, storing the coal that was delivered by rail from Weymouth in his outhouses, and selling it round the village from a horse and cart.