Mona Villa

Mona Villa is a house dating back to the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the mid-18th century and additions in the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed, with the facade now plastered. The building has a wooden cornice with decorative modillions. The roof is tiled, and there's a truncated 17th-century brick chimney stack internally, featuring a pilaster strip. The house is in an L-shape, extended to a double-depth plan with a through passage.

It has two storeys and an original two-window range. The entrance, positioned off-centre, has a 19th-century half-glazed door with two four-centred lights, set within a mid-18th-century moulded wood doorcase featuring simple consoles and a broken pediment. Late 19th/early 20th-century canted bays with four-pane sashes are present to the front, with later 20th-century brickwork at ground floor level. The first floor windows are four-pane sashes with margin bars and moulded frames. The rear of the house features a timber-framed gable on the left, with a large mid-19th-century polygonal bay on the ground floor. A mid-19th-century whitewashed brick gabled addition is on the right.

Inside, the original timber framing is exposed, along with ceiling beams (which are boxed in on the ground floor). On the first floor, the beams have broad chamfers. A room on the left side of the house has an inglenook. A room on the right has two built-in cupboards from the mid-18th century. A first-floor room above contains a larger cupboard and a mid-18th-century wooden chimney piece with fretwork decoration. There’s a mid-18th-century staircase with turned balusters, and six-panelled doors throughout. The attic stairs door has old butterfly hinges, and an adjacent cupboard has an H-hinge.