Description

MONKLEIGH SS4520 17/146 Monkleigh 15.4.82 House, Staddon House and attached outbuilding (formerly listed as Monkleigh House/Staddon House) II Vicarage, now 2 houses. Staddon House, to left, is c. 1500 in origin; it was remodelled and Monkleigh House (to right) built c. 1808. Colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble. Hipped slate roof; rendered brick ridge stacks. L-plan with rear wing and outbuilding to rear of Staddon House on left. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Monkleigh House, of symmetrical 3-window range, has C20 porch with half-glazed inner door with glazing bars. Flat rendered arches over 16-pane above 20-pane sashes with Gothick glazing bars. Bay to left (the front of Staddon House) has two similar asymmetrically-placed sashes. Three-bay right side wall has symmetrical elevation with bowed central bay and similar sashes. A mid C19 two-storey extension with horned Gothick sashes and main door is placed to left of Staddon House. Interior of Monkleigh House: noted as having panelled doors and shutters, marble fireplaces, and fine dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and fret-cut brackets. Interior of Staddon House: ground floor has moulded beams of c. 1500; two beams in centre have mortices for C16 plank and stud partition; one of these partitions, adjoining the rear room, survives and has Tudor-arched doorway with sunk spandrels which was blocked in C17. On the first floor, the bases of 3 trusses with curved feet are visible above the front room. Staddon House is probably the chamber block and sole surviving remnant of the C16 parsonage house. Subsidiary Features: to rear of Staddon House is a C17 outbuilding, altered in the mid C19; of rendered cob and stone with hipped Welsh slate roof and stone ridge stack; C19 plank door to bakehouse in front room, C19 double doors to coachouse, C19 door to stable and double-entry to hay barn to rear.

Listing NGR: SS4544720916

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)