Description

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM CULLINGS HILL
(South-West Side)

9/26 Monks Cottage

GV II

Shop and house, now house. C17 or early C18, with late C19 addition
and C20 alterations. Ground floor painted brick, first floor rendered
with applied studding. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Plat band. Part
of post and wall-plate end visible to front left corner terminating about
half way up present first floor, possibly relating to a non-extant
building to left. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right with gablet.
Right hip returns, with lower ridge. Red and grey brick ridge stack
towards centre. Irregular fenestration of 3 paned windows; one two-light
horizontally-sliding sash to each end and one six-paned single light
towards centre. Bow window to left end of ground floor, ribbed garage
doors to right, and ribbed door with flat hood on slender iron brackets
under stack. Two-storey painted brick rear addition to right. Painted
flint rear lean-to. Interior: chamfered axial beam and unchamfered joists
of relatively small scantling to left ground-floor room. Brick fireplace,
partly in English bond, with bressumer formed from a late C16 or C17
ovolo-moulded ceiling beam with comparatively elaborate chamfer-stops.
Chamfered axial beam to right ground-floor room. Tie beam and wall-
plate of relatively small scantling.

Listing NGR: TR1761643910

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544164

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]