Description

ST 86 NW MONKTON FARLEIGH MONKTON FARLEIGH VILLAGE (east side)

2/119 No 67 (Cluny Cottage) and Post Office

GV II

Semi-detached cottage and post office. Probably late C16, extended C18 and altered C19. Rubble stone, Bridgwater tiled roof with coped verges and stone stacks. Gable end to road; through passage to rear of stack. Two-storey, 1-window west front. Moulded Tudor- arched stone doorway with planked door and 12-pane sash to right, no first floor windows, attic with rooflight. Right return is gable to road with small C19 sash to ground floor and single-light casement in chamfered stone surround to first floor, square stone sundial with initials CPH 1903 (Charles Parry Hobhouse), damaged insurance disc. Rear has chamfered round-arched planked door to rear of through passage within lean-to greenhouse, 3-light chamfered mullioned casement to right, C19 half-dormer with 2-light casement to left. First floor has 3-light ovolo-mullioned casement and 3-light cyma-mullioned casement, right hand part in dressed limestone is a C18 addition. Single-storey post office attached to left and at right angles to main range of No 67 has C19 six-pane and 4-pane shop windows, half-glazed door and pantiled roof. Interior has deep chamfered beams with stepped stops to through passage and room to left which has large open fireplace with Tudor- arched wooden lintel on stone jambs, bread ovens. Dining room in C18 part has beaded square-headed fireplace. First floor south bedroom has stone bolection-moulded fireplace with cornice and a C19 inserted cast-iron grate, planked doors.

Listing NGR: ST8053965350

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)