Description

SE 55 NW
2/44
15.3.66

NUN MONKTON
THE COMMON
(west side)
Church House and wall to east (formerly listed as Church House)

GV
II

House and garden wall. Mid C18 with earlier origins. Brick in English
bond, pantile roof. Central-hallway entry with cross wing to rear. 2
storeys and cellar, 3 bays. Casement to cellar at right. Steps to 6-panel
door beneath divided overlight. Sashes with glazing bars in rubbed brick
surrounds. Elliptical arches to all openings. First-floor band. Brick
kneelers to raised gables, tumbling-in to lower part of gable ends and
coping to apex. End stacks. Interior: a basket-arched timber door-frame
incorporated into the wall of the back passage and 2 steeply-pitched roof
timbers visible in the wall of a first-floor room suggest an earlier origin
for this house. The drawing room contains fine mid C18 fielded panelling
and a contemporary fireplace with double mantelpiece. Closed string dogleg
staircase with slender column-on-vase balusters. Wall approximately 1 metre
in height to front of property.

Listing NGR: SE5064957761

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443189

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)