Court Cottage
COURT COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296038
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Court Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COURT COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296038
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Court Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT COTTAGE
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:
- COURT COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Monksilver
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 06463 38290
Details
ST03NE MONKSILVER CP WOODFORD
5/28 Court Cottage
22.5.69
- II
Incorrectly shown on OS map as Woodford Farm. Farmhouse. C16, altered C17, and mid C20. Whitewashed random rubble, thatched roof, stone stack right gable end, large external stack to left of entrance. 3 cell and cross passage, now 2 cell, stair turret at rear, outshut and C20 addition. one and a half storeys, gabled bay to left of external stack breaks forward slightly, three 2-light C20 wooden casements with gabled tops, ground floor two 3-light to left of stack, one to right, small opening in chimney breast now blocked, entrance to right of stack, wooden lintel, depressed arch doorway, ribbed door, decorative hinges. Rear elevation has 2-light steep chamfered mullioned casement lighting stairs. Interior: cross passage, restored C17 plank and muntin screeen, depressed arch rear door, now entrance to bathroom addition, another in outshut. Original kitchen to right, stairs to right of fireplace, chamfered beams with double stops, to left of cross passage open hall formed from 2 groundfloor rooms with upper floor removed exposing jointed cruck construction, inserted galley, solid wooden stairs to rear with blocked moulded stairlight, 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses. The home of Elizabeth Conibeer and her daughters, whose violent death in 1773 is recorded on the tombstone in the churchyard of the Church of All Saints, Monksilver. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, April 1975).
Listing NGR: ST0646338290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264785
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in April, (1975)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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Download a full scale map (PDF)© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
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