Fire damaged historic Dorset cottage to be rebuilt
Dorset Council has now agreed the Grade Two listed cottage in Poxwell can be rebuilt
A fire-damaged historic thatched cottage at Poxwell is to be re-built.
Dorset Council has approved a like-for-like planning application for the Grade two listed building.
Photographs with the application show the full extent of the disastrous blaze with part of the roof collapsed, the lounge, kitchen and two bedrooms almost destroyed and the bathroom, in a rear extension to the original building, still standing although smoke and water damaged. Both the roof timbers and the thatched roofs were destroyed by the fire.
Once completed agents for the owner say the semi-detached Honeysuckle Cottage should look much as it did before the fire on October 22nd last year.
Specialists’ contractors will be brought in to carry out the work.
“It is the intention to restore the property back to its pre-loss condition on a like-for-like basis wherever possible and practical, to preserve the historic or replicate the original materials,” said a statement from agents Smithers Purslow.
The building dates to 1843 and is within the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is thought to have once been linked to nearby Poxwell House, once part of the Cerne Abbey Estate.