Little Pitt Cottage

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Little Pitt Cottage
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"a fine and exceptionally intact small timber-framed house"
Typemedieval house
Location Monmouthshire, Wales
Coordinates 51°47′04″N2°54′58″W / 51.7844°N 2.9162°W / 51.7844; -2.9162 Coordinates: 51°47′04″N2°54′58″W / 51.7844°N 2.9162°W / 51.7844; -2.9162
OS grid reference SO 3689 0992
Builtmid 16th century
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameLittle Pitt Cottage
Designated9 January 1956
Reference no.1974
Community Llanarth
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Location of Little Pitt Cottage in Monmouthshire

Little Pitt Cottage is a medieval house in Llanarth, Monmouthshire, South Wales. It was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1956, its listing record describing it as a "fine and exceptionally intact timber-framed house". [1]

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History and description

The house has a cruck trussed gable, with an exposed timber frame and four monumental centred doorways, modified to form a three-unit plan in the 17th century. [2] [3] [4] The architectural historian John Newman describes the cottage as "the most completely surviving cruck-truss hall house in the county". [5] The windows have timber lintels under a painted stone dripmould. The ends of beams for the inserted hall floor are visible. [3] Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in the first of their three-volume history of vernacular architecture Monmouthshire Houses , give a detailed description of the cottage, with plans and illustrations. [6] Peter Smith, in his work, Houses of the Welsh Countryside, describes Little Pitt as "a good example" of the hall house plan. [7]

The house was, and remains, part of the Llanarth estate and is Grade II* listed. [1] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Cadw. "Little Pitt Cottage  (Grade II*) (1974)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  2. "Pit Cottage". Historic Environment Record (HER) . Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust (GGAT). GGAT PRN 01827g. Retrieved 2 May 2016 via archwilio (online database of the four Welsh Archaeological Trusts).
  3. 1 2 "Little Pitt Cottage". Statutory List of Buildings . Cadw. 15 May 2000 [Listed 1956]. Cadw Building ID 1974. Retrieved 2 May 2016 via Historic Wales.
  4. "Pit Cottage". National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW). Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW). NPRN 20662. Retrieved 2 May 2016 via coflein (online database of the NMRW).
  5. Newman 2000, p. 266.
  6. Fox & Raglan 1994, pp. 55-57.
  7. Smith 1988, p. 42.
  8. "Property Lettings Near Monmouth". The Llanarth Estate. Retrieved 23 August 2017.

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