Monks Cottage

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM CULLINGS HILL (South-West Side)

9/26 Monks Cottage

GV II

Shop and house, now house. C17 or early C18, with late C19 addition and C20 alterations. Ground floor painted brick, first floor rendered with applied studding. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Plat band. Part of post and wall-plate end visible to front left corner terminating about half way up present first floor, possibly relating to a non-extant building to left. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right with gablet. Right hip returns, with lower ridge. Red and grey brick ridge stack towards centre. Irregular fenestration of 3 paned windows; one two-light horizontally-sliding sash to each end and one six-paned single light towards centre. Bow window to left end of ground floor, ribbed garage doors to right, and ribbed door with flat hood on slender iron brackets under stack. Two-storey painted brick rear addition to right. Painted flint rear lean-to. Interior: chamfered axial beam and unchamfered joists of relatively small scantling to left ground-floor room. Brick fireplace, partly in English bond, with bressumer formed from a late C16 or C17 ovolo-moulded ceiling beam with comparatively elaborate chamfer-stops. Chamfered axial beam to right ground-floor room. Tie beam and wall- plate of relatively small scantling.

Listing NGR: TR1761643910