Monks Fitchett is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House.
Monks Fitchett
- WRENN ID
- salt-flue-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 23 SE 6/143
WALLINGTON KITS LANE (North side) No. 2 (Monks Fitchett)
GV II
House, late C17 altered and extended. Timber frame, pargetted plaster. Wood bark tiles on steeply pitched roof, originally thatched. Yellow brick stacks. Two cell cottage with central entrance, extended by one bay to left. 2 storeys, 3 windows. 2 right hand first floor windows are 3 light lattice casements. Timber door. Cross axial ridge stack to left where original cottage ended. Stack in right end wall on rear pitch. Wall plate visible in right return wall. Small extension to rear left. Interior not inspected. George Orwell lived and served as the village grocer here between 1936 and 1940, owning the house until 1947. From Wallington must come 'Willingdon', the setting for Animal Farm.
Listing NGR: TL2924133840
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