Description

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TL 5233 38/600
5222

NEWPORT,
HIGH STREET (east side),
Monk's Barn

26.11.51

II* GV

Timber-framed 2 storeyed building with exposed framing and brick nogging on the front. Restored. The house was built in 3 stages. The earliest part, which probably comprised the original priests house, was a mid C15 structure with an undercroft of coursed flint rubble and brick. It stood at right angles to the road with the upper storey jettied on exposed joists and curved brackets with shafts and capitals (one is original), the upper storey has a good oriel window with an original sill with the soffit carved with the figures of a crowned Virgin and Child flanked by angels. In the early C16, a 2 bay 2 storeyed hall block was added on the south side and the roof was extended over the original house replacing the earlier roof. There was a cross entrance bay of which the east and west doors remain, with 4 centred arches, square heads and carved spandrels and nail studded oak battened doors. The roof has a fine octagonal crown post and tie beam and the roof timbers are heavily smoke blackened. Later in the C16 a south service wing was added, with a shorter roof span than on the hall block. The upper storey was jettied on the front on exposed joists and curved brackets. This wing was later built out at the rear with a long catslide roof. The whole front has the appearance of a "Wealden" house with a wide coved eaves cornice in the central recessed part. There is a 3 window range of casement windows with leaded lights. In the C17 a central chimney stack was inserted in the cross entry bay. Roof tiled (old tiles), with an internal chimney stack rebuilt above roof level. (RCHM 20).

Listing NGR: TL5215933938

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534442

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)