(In the Appreciation as "house on site of station")
The station was then demolished ~ the photograph here must be one of the last of the building to be taken ~ and the house which replaced it was built between 1962 and 1963. The Appreciation comments that the colour of the reconstructed stone is wrong, but excuses that on the basis that the house is set well back from the road. In reality, it was a condition of the railway company that the house be made from the same Portesham stone as the original station, one low wall of which remains in the garden.
Ironically, the worst blizzards in years blocked the roads in January 1963, cutting Abbotsbury from the outside world ~ "Royal Navy helicopters from Portland had to drop vital supplies, a situation that never arose when the railway was running!", wrote Brian Jackson in his book "The Abbotsbury Branch" (Wild Swan, 1989).
The first owner of the new house was a Dorchester chemist called Tynegate, whose claim to fame is the invention of stage blood ~ stains from his world-patented mixture still adorn the walls of the garage ~ and the creation of especially bloody effects for early episodes of "Doctor Who".