Court Cottage

ST03NE MONKSILVER CP WOODFORD

5/28 Court Cottage

22.5.69

• II

Incorrectly shown on OS map as Woodford Farm. Farmhouse. C16, altered C17, and mid C20. Whitewashed random rubble, thatched roof, stone stack right gable end, large external stack to left of entrance. 3 cell and cross passage, now 2 cell, stair turret at rear, outshut and C20 addition. one and a half storeys, gabled bay to left of external stack breaks forward slightly, three 2-light C20 wooden casements with gabled tops, ground floor two 3-light to left of stack, one to right, small opening in chimney breast now blocked, entrance to right of stack, wooden lintel, depressed arch doorway, ribbed door, decorative hinges. Rear elevation has 2-light steep chamfered mullioned casement lighting stairs. Interior: cross passage, restored C17 plank and muntin screeen, depressed arch rear door, now entrance to bathroom addition, another in outshut. Original kitchen to right, stairs to right of fireplace, chamfered beams with double stops, to left of cross passage open hall formed from 2 groundfloor rooms with upper floor removed exposing jointed cruck construction, inserted galley, solid wooden stairs to rear with blocked moulded stairlight, 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses. The home of Elizabeth Conibeer and her daughters, whose violent death in 1773 is recorded on the tombstone in the churchyard of the Church of All Saints, Monksilver. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, April 1975).

Listing NGR: ST0646338290