Monk's Retreat
MONK'S RETREAT
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400292
- 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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