Description

SE13NW BINGLEY PARK ROAD
SE10397 (east side)

6/158 Monks Barn
9.8.66

GV II

House. Mid C17 with early mid C18 enlargement and alteration.
Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings to C18 extension, stone
slate roofs. 2 storeys. L-shaped originally with added C18
wing, now T-shaped. Earliest house has double-chamfered
mullioned windows to unusual 3-cell plan : 1st cell has 2-
light with same above and Tudor-arched doorway with chamfered
surrounds; 2nd cell has 3-light with 2-light above; 3rd
cell has 7-light with 4-light above; dripmould with heart-
shaped stops over ground-floor window of 2nd and 3rd cells.
Roof raised 2 courses, stone gutter brackets. Stack to left
gable and one other ridge stack. C18 wing at right-angles to
3rd cell has doorway with monolithic jambs and 2-light flat-
faced mullioned window above. Rear of this range is new south-
east facing front. Gabled wing to left has rusticated quoins,
band and moulded cornice forming pedimented gable; 3 bays of
cross-windows with flat-faced recessed mullions which have an
inner chamfer; doorway with architrave and 2-light overlight
in 3rd bay. 2 ridge stacks, stack at junction with earlier
house which has different masonry to 1st floor with C18 windows
and quoins to wing at lst-floor level. 2 C17 cells have quoins
to right; double-chamfered mullioned windows to ground floor only,
originally transomed but now with taller replaced mullions, under
dripmould with carved stops: 2-light fire-window, 6-light window
with king-mullion; two 2-light windows with doorway with monolithic
jambs inserted between. lst-floor has four 2-light windows.
Large external stack to right gable.

Interior : housebody (of west range) has fireplace with large
segmental-arch and chamfered surround, 2 chamfered spine beams
with ogee stops and C17 staircase with finely turned balusters
and newel with slender handrail, oak panelled wall to underside.
Other rooms have chamfered beams. Chambers over have queen-post
roof. Junction with south-east range is reported to have timber-
framed gable wall now covered. C18 wing has 2 panelled rooms one
of oak the other of pine with large raised-and-fielded panels,
bolection-moulded fireplace with fine set of Delft tiles of equestrian
subjects; open-well staircase has egg-cup-turned balusters and
moulded handrail and newels. Central room of south-east front altered
internally C18, has 2 opposing doorways with stone bolection-
moulded surrounds matching that of fireplace. Chamber over has
square, painted panelling.

Listing NGR: SE1105139693

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588152

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings