6 And 7, Monkton Hill

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273NW MONKTON HILL 930-1/7/150 (East side) 22/06/78 Nos.6 AND 7

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Two cottages, (formerly 3 cottages). Late C17/early C18. Limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, double-Roman tile roof, stone stack with brick shaft to the left gable end of the right-hand cottage, C20 brick stack to front slope of the gable end to the left-hand cottage. Each cottage is 2-unit plan, the cottage to the left, now part of No.6, is at a right angle to the street. To the right is a C20 lower extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; each cottage is 2-window range. A continuous ground-floor string course rises to form hoodmoulds over the chamfered stone architraves to doors at the outer ends. Stone-mullioned cyma-moulded 2-light windows. No.6 to the left has C20 door, PVC windows and a roof swept at the eaves. The forward wing has a C20 hipped roof and one C20 2-light PVC window to each floor. No.7 has C19 3-pane casement windows, a C19 6-panel door and a steeply-pitched gambrel roof with C20 rooflights. Although the roofs are altered the facade is of continuous stonework. INTERIOR: not inspected but believed to be altered.

Listing NGR: ST9204273596