Description

SX 48 SE BRENTOR

7/35 Monkstone Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 origins, C20 alterations. Stone rubble, partly rendered and
whitewashed, bitumen-painted slate roof gabled at ends. Stone chimney with moulded
cap to left gable end, rendered chimney to right end of 2-storey build, brick chimney
to rear addition. Complex development. Original plan may have been 3 room and
through or cross passage, with stack backing on to passage and heated inner room.
The lower end and passage now largely dismantled and now single storey. The hall
seems to have been extended out to the front as a gabled projection. A circa C19
rear wing completes the present cross plan. A small projection under a catslide roof
to the rear of the hall may have been a stair turret. 2 storeys at higher end,
single storey at lower end. 2 storey block has 1 + 1-window front with a C20 glazed
porch and front door into the front projection. Ground floor window left C20 under
slate drip ledge. Ground floor window in front projection 3-light C20 casement, 3-
panes per light, under timber lintel. First floor window left 2-light C20 casement,
4-panes per light. First floor window in front projection C20 under longer timber
lintel. Pair of small chamfered slit lancets in one stone in right return of front
projection probably former stair light, re-sited.
Interior Former hall has massive C16 fireplace with chamfered granite lintel
supported on granite corbels with curved ends (q.v.) East Liddaton and Perry Ash. 2
chamfered cross beams with pyramid stops. Blocked doorway to inner room has
segmental stone arch. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX4678280960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398800

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)