History

Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, and comprised an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) including mansion house with park, and cottages and smallholdings. Over subsequent decades farms were acquired from neighbouring landowners, mainly during the ownership of Philip William Godsal, who inherited in 1858 and died in 1896. In 1895 it was reported to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire that the Iscoyd Park estate, now expanded to 887 acres (359 hectares), had 9 farms. Of these 'six new farmhouses, bricked and slated, and homesteads to them, have been built new entirely' and 'sixteen cottages and buildings for pigs and cows have been erected'. The latter smallholdings include many that were built on the site of earlier smallholdings.

Kil Green Cottage is a smallholding dated 1892, although it replaced an earlier smallholding known as Higher Dirtwick (Dirtwick is an old name for Higher Wych), which is shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey. The present cottage and its shippon are shown on the 1911 Ordnance Survey.

Exterior

A 1½-storey cottage of hand-moulded brick with tile roof on overhanging eaves and with dentil verge, brick stack and 2 inserted skylights. Windows are segmental-headed small-pane iron-frame windows incorporating pivoting lights. The gable-end front has a boarded door on the R side, which is under a shallow gabled stone head inscribed 'PWG 1892'. The attic has 2 small windows. The R side wall facing the road has 2 windows, and the L side wall a window on the L side and French doors to the R inserted in the position of an original window. The rear gable end has a lean-to with boarded door and window above.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as part of a well-preserved C19 smallholding characteristic of the Iscoyd Park estate style, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving former estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29507099

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)