Monmouth House
MONMOUTH HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295745
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Monmouth House
- Statutory Address:
- MONMOUTH HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295745
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Monmouth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONMOUTH HOUSE, CHAPEL 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:
- MONMOUTH HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Henstridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 71304 21040
Details
ST72SW HENSTRIDGE CP CHAPEL LANE (North side) YENSTON
3/75 Monmouth House
II
House. C17, but much modified in C20. Local stone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; plain clay roof over stone slate base courses between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. 'H'-plan, 2 storeys, 3 bay South elevation. 2-light hollow chamfered mullioned windows with flat surrounds and hood moulds, leaded panes with one iron-framed opening light to each window. Entrance in East side, which is double gabled, with central timber and stone porch; lower bay 1 window of early pattern, remainder this side apparently early C20 - above this window a datestone 'M 1685' which may not be original. Interior not seen, House formerly known as Priory House, as it is said to have been a Tudor house utilising stone from the Benedictine Yenston Priory, a cell of the French Abbey of St, Cever, which stood West of this house; the outbuildings said to contain traces of the Priory outbuildings. (Wakeford, A History of Henstridge, 1953).
Listing NGR: ST7130421040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261811
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wakeford, , A History of Henstridge, (1953)
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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