Description

COTHERSTONE MAIN STREET
NZ 02 NW
(East side,off)
11/53 Summerhouse and
attached garden wall,
30 metres north-east
of Hagg House
II
Summerhouse and attached garden wall. Early C19 with alterations. Summerhouse
limewashed rubble and brick with stone-flagged roofs. Squared rubble garden
wall. Gothick style.

Summerhouse: 2-storey, one-bay block flanked by tall one-storey, one-bay, set-
back wings. Central boarded door in partly-blocked pointed archway. Round-
arched niche above with projecting sill, half-H apron and inserted 4-pane light.
Niche flanked by stone panels with incised crosses. Low-pitched pyramidal roof.
Wings: replaced casements have chamfered sills and lintels with triple keystones;
flat-coped battlements conceal low-pitched roofs. Stepped truncated external
chimney on right return.

Tall, quadrant-plan garden wall with flat coping runs east for about 25 metres.
Remainder of garden wall to south and east is not of special interest.

This summerhouse, known locally as Monks House, is similar to an example in the
grounds of Woden Croft (See item 11/70).

Listing NGR: NZ0117320072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414232

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)