Description

Mid to later 19th century. 3 polygonal game larders, in garden to rear of Montcoffer House. 2 larders coursed rubble with brick arches, ashlar dressings; raised margins, base course, band course, eaves course and cornice. 1 larder of wood. 4 panelled door to each. Grey slates.

W LARDER: classical style. Doorway with impost course, semi-circular fanlight with keystone, repeated as window above impost course to each elevation, with diamond-pane hoppers. Polygonal roof; wooden louvred ventilator at apex with ogival leaded roof and ball finial. Trelliswork cladding surviving on certain faces.

INTERIOR: lath and plaster. Dated game bag records written on walls.

E LARDER: in Tudor style; hoodmoulded openings. Doorway with letterbox fanlight. 2 windows round-arched timber casements, alternating with blank elevations. Slated polygonal roof with ball finial and ?fox weathervane. Trelliswork cladding as above.

N LARDER: wooden, smaller; doorway with rectangular fanlight. Cornice.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1990.

Statement of Interest

Montcoffer House was renovated for the Earl of Fife's Factor, William Rose, circa 1774-75. The Dovecot was built by 1790. West Larder with partly damaged roof (1990).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17773423

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)