Monks Cottage and Little Thatch
MONKS COTTAGE AND LITTLE THATCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171742
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Cottage and Little Thatch
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS COTTAGE AND LITTLE THATCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171742
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Cottage and Little Thatch
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS COTTAGE AND LITTLE THATCH, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS COTTAGE AND LITTLE THATCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Child Okeford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 83437 12642
Details
CHILD OKEFORD
ST 83l2 HIGH STREET (West Side)
9/14 Monks Cottage and Little Thatch
GV II
House, now 2 cottages. Early C16 or earlier. Remodelled C17 and refaced. C18 and C19. Brick (End gable of Monks Cottage in C18 English bond with some burnt headers with chainage work under end gable. Little Thatch in C18 Flemish bond with some burnt headers. Monks Cottage in C19 Flemish bond). Upper floor of Monks Cottage partly in C17 timber framing. Monks Cottage has C20 tiled roof, Little Thatch is thatched. End brick stacks to each cottage. 2 storeys, irregular fenestration. Windows are mainly 5-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. Monks Cottage has a C17 canted, dormer, oriel window to the upper floor right. This is supported on a scrolled bracket and has a moulded cornice. Part-glazed plank doors, left of centre to Monks Cottage and central in Little Thatch. Internally there are C17 fireplaces with depressed 4-centred, chamfered bressummers to the north end of each cottage. Living rooms have exposed, chamfered ceiling beams and wall plates. The remains of 3, smoke-blackened true cruck trusses are exposed in various locations. The house would appear to have originated as a 4-bay open-hall house of uncertain plan in the early C16 or earlier. This would probably have been entirely of timber-frame construction. This house was then ceiled and divided into 2 separate tenements in the C17 (The central stack serving only one tenement). The cottages were then largely refaced in brick in the C18 and Monks Cottage was refaced again in the C19.
Listing NGR: ST8343712642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103101
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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