Monk's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.
Monk's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-facade-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Monk's Cottage, Taynton
- OS grid reference
- SO 711 212
- Coordinates
- 51.88893, -2.4211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monk's Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage featuring a timber-frame structure with wattle and daub or rendered infill, and a random rubble extension. The building has a tiled roof and consists of two bays, is one room deep, and is one and a half stories tall. There are single-bay, single-storey extensions at each end.
On the entrance front, the left side has a stone extension with a flush panelled door on the right, which is topped by a flat timber lintel. The stonework for the chimney is located in the first panel to the right of the house, with timber framing extending beyond two panels high. There is a two-light casement window, and behind an open, gabled timber porch, there is a late 20th-century half-glazed door. Low stone walls flank the porch, and to the right is another two-light casement window.
A lean-to dormer is positioned to the left of the front door, and there is a gable chimney on the ridge of the left gable. The right side features a timber-framed extension with a shallow hipped roof and a top half-glazed window with a total of seven lights. Originally, the floor beams were tenoned through the studs, but the floor was raised in the late 20th century, and the stairs were replaced.
Local climate
Monk's Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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