Monks Hardwicke House, About 1 Mile East Of Prior Hill Park

TL 26 SE ST. NEOTS RURAL

2/88 (23/2) Monks Hardwick House, 24.10.51 about 1 mile east of Prior Hill Park

GV II

On a moated site. Two ranges forming a T-plan, remaining from a larger house, probably built c.1600 by Sir Edmund Anderson, kt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Adjoining and to the south is a c.1830 block. c.1600 house timber framed with rebuilt east and west gable ends of late C17 red brick, English bond. The walls were cased in gault brick in early C19 and the range to the north shortened and gable end rebuilt in modern times. Plain tile and modern tile roofs. Two gable end stacks, the ridge stack has been removed. Two storeys. Later fenestration to gable ends. c.1830 block of double pile plan. Gault brick and hipped, slate roof of low pitch. Two storeys. Range of five recessed hung sashes with glazing bars. Pedimented Roman doric portico of stone. Interior. East-west crosswing of c.1600 house has three bays with sealed inglenook to centre bay and hearth to first floor room above. The ground floor room of the parlour wing to the north has double cyma moulding to middle rails and main beam. Original cantilevered staircase to c.1830 block. Open string with square section balusters. RCHM (Hunts) p228, mon. 2. VCH (Hunts) (Vol. II) p340. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p295.

Listing NGR: TL2140461601