Monks House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. A C17 Cottage.

Monks House

WRENN ID
young-pedestal-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Monks House, Ashley, Winsley
OS grid reference
ST 811 625
Coordinates
51.36151, -2.27173
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Monks House is a row of three cottages from the 17th and 18th centuries that have been converted into two houses and altered around 1960. The building is constructed of rubble stone with a stone slate roof, featuring three ridge stacks and a stack at the south end. It stands two storeys high.

No 189, on the right, dates from the 17th century and was originally double-fronted with end stacks. It has a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with a hoodmould on each floor, positioned on either side of the door. A 20th-century enclosed porch has been added, along with a reused 18th-century two-light window above the door and a matching 20th-century one-window range at the right end, which includes a door and a 2-light window above.

Monks House features a 17th-century one-window cottage to the right, mirroring No 189, with a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and hoodmould on each floor, and a door to the right. There is a stack to the left. To the left of Monks House is an 18th-century double-fronted house with flush mullion windows, a 3-light window on the ground floor, and a 2-light window above. The centre of this house previously had a door, now obscured by a large 20th-century gabled projection. There is also a garage addition at the south end.

Inside, No 189 features chamfered and stopped beams and a large timber-lintel fireplace at the south end. The north end chimney, which is now internal, originally had a curved outside stack.

Local climate

Monks House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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