Description

MONEWDEN TM 25 NW TM 245 594 4/93 16/3/66 Monewden Hall - II

Small country house. Mid C18 possibly with earlier core. Red Flemish bond brick with a plaintile roof. Two storeys and attic. E-shaped plan. Entrance front: 7 bays symmetrically disposed with a central projecting porch with hipped roof. This has a central door of 8 raised and fielded panels, probably of c.1930. At either side of the porch are 3 bays with cross windows having splayed heads. Band of 3 bricks depth between the floors and 7 cross windows to the first floor. Dentilled cornice below the eaves of moulded brick. Seven 2-light hipped dormers to the attic. Central axial ridge chimney stack. Attached at left is a single-storey addition with hipped roof of the 1930s. Right hand side: two bays with cross windows,band and cornice as seen on entrance front. To the centre of the first floor is an oval window of the 1930s. Central flue, axial with this wing to the ridge. Left hand side, masked at right by the 1930s single storey addition but having two bays at left with cross windows to the ground and first floors. Rear: projecting wings at left and right and left of centre all with hipped roofs. The right hand wing has cross windows to the ground and first floors, and slightly projecting plinth and the band and moulded brick cornice, seen before and extending across the whole of the front. Two-light hipped dormer above. The left hand flank of this wing has two cross windows to both ground and first floors. The left hand wing has 3-light ground and first floor casements and a 2-light hipped dormer. The projecting wing at centre has cross windows to ground and first floors and a plank door to its right hand side. Between the 3 wings are single bays with cross windows to the ground and first floors. The left hand of these 2 bays has a flat-roofed 1930s addition at ground floor level connecting the central and left wing. Hipped 2-light dormer windows to the attics above these. Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM2455859386

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