Description

THETFORD

TL8683 MONKSGATE
617-1/5/111 Abbey Farm Cottage
10/03/71
(Formerly Listed as:
Abbey House Farmhouse)

GV I

Abbey outbuildings, converted to farmhouse at west end mid
C19, remainder used as farm buildings, now store. Late C13
timber-framed structure with C19 flint skin and gault brick
dressings. Re-used medieval fragments and coursed clunch also.
Thatched roof with some slate.
One storey and attic, formerly one storey. North side with two
C19 cart entrances under segmental heads and three C19
doorways with overlights and skewback arches. Gabled roof with
2 gabled dormers to east end. Ridge stack left of centre and 2
stacks at west end, one on each roof slope. South side with
more coursed clunch, one blocked cart entrance and various C19
windows. 2 gabled dormers to east. West gable provides
entrance to farmhouse: central door flanked by one sash with
6/6 glazing either side. 3 similar first-floor sashes.
INTERIOR: house with stick baluster staircase. Centre third of
house with surviving evidence of a C13 aisled hall structure:
arcade posts with arched braces to tie beams and arcade
plates. Queen posts on the tie beams with arched braces to
collars and purlins. Very heavy scantling. Eastern third with
2 remaining arcade posts embedded in later partition walls.

Listing NGR: TL8653183489

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535049

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (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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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]