Monks House
MONKS HOUSE, THORPE GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190940
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Monks House
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS HOUSE, THORPE GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190940
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Monks House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS HOUSE, THORPE GREEN LANE
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:
- MONKS HOUSE, THORPE GREEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe Underwoods
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46328 59451
Details
THORPE UNDERWOODS THORPE GREEN LANE SE 45 NE (east side) 7/61 Monk's House (formerly listed 15/3/66 as Thorpe Underwood) II House. C17; part rebuilt and extended in mid C18; further C20 alteration and modernisation. Original house red brick in irregular English garden wall bond, with cement-rendered brick mullions and window surrounds. Extension orange-red brick in stretcher bond. Stone slate roofs. Original house lobby-entry plan with parallel rear wing, later extended to form L-shaped plan. 2-storey, 3-bay front. Original doorway blocked by 2-light, small-pane casement, beneath blocked 2-light mullioned window on first floor. Remaining windows are of 5 mullioned and transomed lights, with square-leaded casements on ground floor, and C19 or C20 decorative glazing on first floor. Mullions are chamfered, and windows recessed in quoined, double-chamfered surrounds beneath fasciated projecting lintels. Three conjoined diagonal stacks in centre of roof ridge. Rear: one original 2-light mullioned window survives at first floor right. Gable end of original rear wing to left, at right angles, with two original mullioned windows above inserted 3-light ground floor window. Blocked 2-light mullioned window in attic, beneath brick coped, shaped gable end. Left return: original 2-light mullioned windows to all floors, that on ground floor with replacement small-pane casements. Single inserted light at ground floor left. Eaves string course. Tear- shaped sunk panel in brick surround in shaped gable apex. Right return: 2-storey-and-attic, 1-window gable wall, at left of 2-storey, 2-window extension. 5-light mullioned and transomed windows on ground and first floors of gable wall: blocked 3-light mullioned window in attic, above eaves string course. Brick-coped, shaped gable. Extension has central 4-panel door in projecting gabled porch. 3-light windows throughout, small-pane casements to right of door, and horizontal sliding sashes, with square-leaded lights, elsewhere. Centre and right end stacks. Monk's House has strong associations with Anne and Branwell Bronte, who lived there from c.1841 as tutors to the children of Rev.Edmund Robinson. York Georgian Society, Annual Report for 1984.
Listing NGR: SE4632859451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
York Georgian Society Annual Report in York Georgian Society Annual Report, (1984)
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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