Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273NW MONKTON HILL 930-1/7/152 (West side) 22/06/78 Monkton Cottage

II

House. Early C18, altered early C20. Coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings, stone slate gambrel roof with 3 hipped dormers, moulded stacks to gable ends and rear. 2-unit through-passage plan with a single-storey service wing to the right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; originally symmetrical 3-window range, early C20 bay added to the left. C19 and C20 rear extensions. Cyma moulding to windows, heavily restored in C20 with C20 glazing, 3-light with stone mullions to the right, single light above the planked door and hood on brackets. To the left a large C20 2-storey bay, canted to the right, with a cornice and parapet, has similar 3-light stone-mullioned windows to the front and right slope. INTERIOR: a stone-flagged passage has C20 stairs to the right and a C19 door with margin panes to the rear extension. The room to the right has a chamfered beam and a chamfered Tudor arch to an open fire to the gable end. The room to the left, with the bay, is c1920. On the 1st floor is an early C18 thin 2-panelled door with a C19 lock and a C19 4-panelled door. The attic has early C18 planked doors with chamfered rails and wrought-iron strap hinges, and a plain fireplace to the right. The 3-bay tie-beam roof has slightly chamfered trenched purlins, a ridge-in-notch and sawn rafters. To the ground floor is some repositioned oak panelling, said to be from Battle Abbey. HISTORY: once part of the Monkton estate, this was formerly the centre of a terrace of 3, now demolished. Their garden paths remain.



Listing NGR: ST9200573558

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)