FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES

FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1119849
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1119849
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Burleston and Tolpuddle
National Grid Reference:: SY 79517 94410

Details

The following building shall be added to the list

TOLPUDDLE DORCHESTER ROAD SY 7994 (north side)

15/200 Former Methodist Chapel, to east of Martyrs' Cottages

GV II*

Former Methodist Chapel, now store. 1818 (Local Methodist Society Records); altered. Cob on plinth of brick with some flint; brick dressings; double Roman tile roof. One storey with inserted loft; gable-end to road, 1 x 2 bays. Road- side gable: former central doorway bricked-up and with later window; inserted doorway above with board door; apex of gable weatherboarded; projecting ends of purlins. Rear: bricked-up short pointed-arched window; gable apex weather- boarded. Left return: at left end, bricked-up doorway with segmental header- brick arch. Right return: inserted central stable door; on left a bricked-up segmental header-brick-arched window. Interior: inserted brick and cobble cow- house floor and loft; king-post roof trusses with through purlins supported at trusses by long braces rising from walls and having short ties to feet of principal rafters; roof underdrawn with lath and plaster (mostly collapsed). In state of disrepair at time of inspection. Five of the six Tolpuddle Martyrs were Methodists and it is presumed that they worshipped in this building.

Listing NGR: SY7951794410

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Legacy System number:: 106409
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.