Montacute Cottage

ST4916 MONTACUTE CP THE BOROUGH (East side) 8/106 No.1 (Montacute Cottage) 19.4.61 GV II Semi-detached house. Circa 1500 and later. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. To bay 1 are chamfered mullioned windows of 3 lights, the upper plain, the lower in a chamfered recess with a C20 label over, lights square headed; to upper bay 2 a 3-light C16 traceried window with trefoil cusped slightly ogee heads in flat-arched wave-mould recess; to upper bay 3 a plain-chamfered 2-light window in chamfered recess; to lower bays 2 and 3 chamfer-mullioned windows of 3 and 2 lights in flat-arched wave-mould recesses, no labels, the lights being ogee-arched with corresponding spandrils; all windows rectangular leaded with some Iron-framed opening lights: between bays 1 and 2 a moulded 4-centre arched doorway without label, enclosing C20 boarded door. Interior not seen, but said to have been altered; it may once havel featured an open hall. (VCH Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4983916944