Former Monks Hall Museum

Monks Hall Museum is a former house that later became a museum. It dates from around 1840 and has later additions, but it incorporates a 17th-century timber-framed structure. The building is made of rendered brick and features slate and graduated stone slate roofs. It has a three-bay, two-storey central-staircase plan with a single-storey wing to the left and a parallel timber-framed range at the rear, all designed in a Tudor style revival.

The symmetrical front elevation includes a projecting plinth, rusticated quoins, and a coped parapet. There is a Tudor-arched central porch with a panelled door and fanlight. On either side of the porch are canted bay windows, which are believed to date from the 1890s when the left wing was added. The first floor has three paired sash windows with hoodmoulds and a central mullion. Above the parapet is a central false gablet, and the gable parapets are coped with kneelers.

At the rear right, the timber-framed structure is exposed, showcasing square panels, jowled corner posts, and a 9-light diamond-shaped timber mullion window with small leaded panes. A two-storey wing, which may have originally served as a porch, stands on a stone plinth to the left. Much of the early structure is hidden by later additions or alterations. Inside, there is a Tudor-arched door surround, part of the framing, and chamfered floor beams visible.

The history of the site goes back considerably further than the current building.