Monks House
MONKS HOUSE, BISHOPSTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345764
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Monks House
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS HOUSE, BISHOPSTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345764
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Monks House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS HOUSE, BISHOPSTON
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, BISHOPSTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Montacute
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4968317191
Details
ST4917 MONTACUTE CP BISHOPSTON (East side)
7/98 Monks House
(formerly listed as The Gables)
19.4.61
GV II
Detached house, possibly 2 cottages formerly. C15 origins, C18, extensively remodelled 1972. Ham stone cut and squared,
ashlar dressings; thatched roof between coped gables, the east gable having an obelisk finial; stone slab chimney
stacks. Single-storey with attics, 6 bays. Earliest windows bays 1, 4 and 6, being plain beaded-mullioned windows in
architraves, under hood moulds, of 4, 3 and 4 lights respectively: bays 2 and 3 have cruciform windows with
hollow-chamfer mouldings in wave mould recesses without labels; this type repeated in coped dormer windows upper bays 2
and 6, the former having two units divided by a king mullion, the copings having crocketted finials, all probably early
C20; the lower bay 2 window blocks a former doorway; surviving doorway in plain opening to bay 5. Lean-to at rear, with
C18 leaded casement window in west gable. Property unoccupied at time of inspection (September 1985), but noted were
two fireplaces, a large open one in the west gable with timber lintol, and a moulded stone surround to the hall
fireplace, possibly a reuse; reported are smoke-blackened beams indicating that the core represents a 2-bay hall with
jointed cruck frame, trenched purlins and 2 surviving windbraces; to the rear ground floor mutilated remains of two
windows with trefoil- cusped lights. (VAG Report, SRO Unpublished, September 1972).
Listing NGR: ST4968317191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263553
- 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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