Monkleigh House, Staddon House and Attached Outbuilding
MONKLEIGH HOUSE, STADDON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171271
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Monkleigh House, Staddon House and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- MONKLEIGH HOUSE, STADDON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171271
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Monkleigh House, Staddon House and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKLEIGH HOUSE, STADDON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MONKLEIGH HOUSE, STADDON HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monkleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45447 20916
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91464
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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