Monks Hollow
MONKS HOLLOW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213715
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Hollow
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS HOLLOW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213715
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Hollow
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS HOLLOW
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 HOLLOW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ottery St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 10921 93723
Details
865/3/96B WIGGATON 02-DEC-02 MONK'S HOLLOW
II
House. Circa early C17; altered and extended C19; altered C20. Plastered cob. Thatched roof with gabled and half-hipped ends, south pitch re-clad in cedar shingles. Axial and gable-end stacks with tall brick shafts.
PLAN: 3-room and through-passage plan with large inner room to east with kitchen fireplace in gable-end stack, central hall with fireplace in axial stack backing onto wide through-passage now blocked at rear and with staircase at back; lower west end room was incorporated circa C18 or early C19 into outbuilding wing extending to rear, now converted into the house accommodation. Kitchen seems to have been re-sited in the inner room.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window south front with C20 2-, 3-, and 4-light casements with leaded panes; hall window replaced by C20 French window approached by steps; through-passage doorway to left of centre with C20 door. Rear [north] facing road has four C19 3-light casements with glazing bars and tall C20 lancet as stair window on right; projecting wing on right with half-hipped end.
INTERIOR: Inner room has chamfered cross-beam with run-out stops and exposed unchamfered joists and large fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer with run-out stops and brick oven. Partition between inner room and hall replaced. Hall has replaced axial beams and fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer with mason's mitre to chamfered timber jamb on right, left jamb replaced. Wide through-passage blocked at rear and with C20 stairs. Lower west end room remodelled. Some old plank doors on first floor. Roof ceiled but straight principals exposed. The roof trusses of rear wing have principals crossed at apex.
Although altered, the north elevation of this C17 house is hardly affected by C20 alterations.
Listing NGR: SY1092193723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398332
- 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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