The original cottage was a pair of farm workers dwellings with a common front door.
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Balston Cottage |
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Referred to in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for the County of
Dorset as a "barn, formally a cottage, has walls
partly of corsed rubble alternating with flint. Reset in the south wall is a fragment of stone tracery, probably 14th century."
The original cottage was a pair of farm workers dwellings with a common front door.
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| The building at the back, today known as Balston Barn, was used as cowstalls where 30 to 35 cows were hand miked twice daily. In the 1930's, villagers living at the western end of the village used to collect their milk from here. A milking machine was installed in the 1960's but the use of these buildings as a dairy ceased in the 1970's when the dairy herd was moved to new premsies at Grove Hill and the barn was converted back to residential use. |