Monk's Retreat
MONK'S RETREAT
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1288193
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1984
- Statutory Address:
- MONK'S RETREAT
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- Date:
- 1999-10-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/01407/09
- Rights:
- © Mr James Ryall. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1288193
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1984
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONK'S RETREAT
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
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