This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET, EAST SIDE
10/17 The Malthouse 5 metres east of The Abbey House and 26.1.56 attached walling (formerly listed as shed and walling GV to east)
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Former abbey building, possibly infirmary, traditionally called The Malthouse, c.1400, with c.C18 west gable wall. Building originally extended further west.
Ashlar and rubble-stone walls. Buttress with 2 set-offs at south west corner.
Clay Roman tile roof. No stacks, 2 storeys, originally, though now only ceiled at west end, 4 windows, irregular fenestration. C14 openings with later wooden framing, skewed loop-light at centre. 2-centred archway immediately west of south wall, of two moulded orders dying into the jambs. East part of this wall was formerly covered by the south wing and has a large opening with a square head of 3 chamfered orders, blocked. West of this is a blocked pedestrian doorway with pointed-segmental head. The east wall has 2 square-headed lights to the lower floor. Upper floor has a single late C14 window of two trefoiled lights, cross- transomed, rebated internally for shutters, and with a chamfered reve-arch.
Interior: beam shelf on north and south walls at upper floor level. Vertical chases in the south wall probably for the wall-parts of the original roof.
Attached west wall of south wing, running south for 60 metres and c.3.5 metres high.
Openings north to south: single square-headed light; window of two trefoiled lights in a square head; doorway with a segmental-pointed head; three ranges of two single-light windows, set one above another, all these have square heads, except the southern on the ground floor, which has a trefoiled head.
(RCHM, Dorset I, p.6 (3).)
Listing NGR: SY5783785157
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0137 IOE Records taken by Derek Beauchamp; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Derek Beauchamp. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Beauchamp, Derek
Rights Holder: Beauchamp, Derek
Ashlar, Clay, Rubble, Stone, Tile, Medieval Abbey, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Religious House, Benedictine Monastery, Monastery, Infirmary, Health And Welfare, Wall, Monument (By Form), Barrier
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