Description

SS 50 NE
4/208

MONKOKEHAMPTON
MONKOKEHAMPTON
Ivy Cottage

GV
II

Pair of cottages, originally one house. Circa mid C17, possibly extended in C18
with C19 and C20 additions. Rendered cob walls. Thatch roof gabled to left end
hipped to right. Projecting rendered rubble stack at left gable end with brick
shaft, similar rear lateral stack.
Plan: originally probably 2 room plan, left-hand room heated by end stack, right-
hand one by rear lateral stack. At the right end is a further unheated room,
divided from the others by a thick wall which is either an original service room or
was added in the C18. Single storey C19 and C20 single storey rear additions.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of C20 2 and 3-light casements,
the ground floor ones have small panes apart from the right-hand one which is later
C20 and larger. C20 stable-type door towards left-hand end. Door to right-hand
Cottage is in thatched roof outshut at rear. C20 1 storey addition adjoin it to the
right.
Interior: right-hand cottage has open fireplace with wide chamfered lintel.
Chamfered unstopped ceiling beam. The left-hand cottage has a fireplace with
chamfered wooden lintel which has run-out stops. Small 1st floor fireplace has
chamfered and hollow step-stopped wooden lintel. Ceiling beams on ground floor are
also chamfered with hollow step stops.
Roof: roof space inacessible but feet of straight principals are visible on 1st
floor and one is supported at the rear on a tall wooden post.

Listing NGR: SS5824405453

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399144

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)