Description

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ST5776 COTE LANE, Stoke Bishop 901-1/28/2130 (South side) 24/02/93 St Monica's Court, St Monica's Home of Rest

GV II

Nurse's home for almshouses, now retirement home. c1925. By Sir George Oatley. For HH Wills. Squared, coursed Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, diagonally-set square ashlar cross-axial and central rear axial stacks and tiled cross gabled roof. Elizabethan revival style. Single-depth plan with end cross wings. 3 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has projecting end gables with moulded coping and corner and central finials, 3-storey canted bays with paired cross windows to ground and first floors, and a 4-light mullion window beneath an ashlar parapet with finials to the merlons; central entrance of 2 semicircular arches, wider to the middle, with half-glazed doors, windows as the bays, the central first-floor one divided by a fifth light, and a continuous range of mullioned attic windows beneath the overhanging eaves, 4:6:4 separated by blind panels; leaded metal casements. To the back of the right-hand gable is a square crenellated tower. INTERIOR: large entrance stair hall with rear stair flight. HISTORICAL NOTE: see St Monica's Rest Home (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5710576338

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