Record Details

NHER Number:20682
Type of record:Building
Name:Pond Cottage, Toft Monks

Summary

Pond Cottage is a timber-framed house which has been rewalled in modern brick. It is likely to be a 16th or 17th century house which had its floors raised later. There is some painted text on the chimney thought to date to 1665, or possibly 1565.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 4246 9542
Map Sheet:TM49NW
Parish:TOFT MONKS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Timber-framed house rewalled in modern brick; either a hall-house floored in 16th/17th century or 16th/17th century house with floors later raised.
Painted text on chimney dated 1665, (or, more probably, 1565). Under repair.
See report (S1) and photographs (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 20 September 1984

Monument Types

  • HALL HOUSE? (14th Century to 21st Century - 1400 AD? to 2100 AD?)
  • HOUSE (16th Century to 21st Century - 1565 AD? to 2100 AD)

Associated Finds

  • WALL PAINTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • Listed Building

Sources and further reading

---Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 737.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
<S1>Unpublished Document: Rose, E.. 1984. Building Report.. Building Report.
<S2>Photograph: CPL 32-36.

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