MONK'S RETREAT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288193
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: MONK'S RETREAT
Statutory Address:: MONK'S RETREAT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288193
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: MONK'S RETREAT
Statutory Address 1:: MONK'S RETREAT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MONK'S RETREAT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Monkton Combe
National Grid Reference:: ST7719961936

Details

ST 76 SE 7/130

MONKTON COMBE Monk's Retreat

G.V. II

House, possibly a priest's house, and later a farmhouse. C16, altered. Rubble with freestone dressings; pantile roof with coped raised verges. 2 storeys. The main (south) elevation faces out over the churchyard: 3 plain 2-light casement windows on ground floor; two 3-light casements on first floor, with pointed heads and hollow chamfered surrounds at right and with 4-centred heads and chamfered surrounds, all under a dripmould, at the left. The 4-centre heads of a 2-light window (C20 door inserted) are visible on the west gable end; a 2-light casement with chamfered mullions and 4-centred heads and a lateral stack, corbelled out at first floor level, are visible on the north side. C20 door in east gable end and an C18 2-light casement window to the left.

Listing NGR: ST7719961936

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 400292
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.