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Strongs Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in East Knoyle, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.0806 / 51°4'50"N

Longitude: -2.1725 / 2°10'20"W

OS Eastings: 388015

OS Northings: 131266

OS Grid: ST880312

Mapcode National: GBR 1WR.3LK

Mapcode Global: FRA 66B8.9HB

Plus Code: 9C3V3RJH+62

Entry Name: Strongs Cottage

Listing Date: 9 September 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1131141

English Heritage Legacy ID: 321147

ID on this website: 101131141

Location: Milton, Wiltshire, SP3

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: East Knoyle

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: East Knoyle St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Tagged with: Cottage Thatched cottage

Description


EAST KNOYLE MILTON ST 83 SE (south side) 8/41 Strongs Cottage GV II Detached cottage. Datestone over door: Edward Strong/1734 with incised scrolled decoration below. Coursed rubble stone, thatched roof with gable end brick stacks. Two-storey, 2-window front. Four-panelled sham door in C20 gabled porch to left of centre, 2- light casement to left and 6-pane fixed and 2-light casement to right. First floor has two 2-light casements. English bond brick extension attached to left has tiled roof and casements. Rear has French windows, 2-light casement to ground floor, 2-light casement to first. Interior has open fireplace with lintel on stone jambs, planked door, chamfered beams. This may have been the home of Edward Strong junior, the mason son of Sir Christopher Wren's senior mason, Edward Strong senior who died 1724. (K. Downes, Sir Christopher Wren, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST8801531266

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