Monks Green Farmhouse

TL 30 NW BRICKENDON LIBERTY MANGROVE LANE (South side)

3/57 Monks Green Farmhouse -

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 former open hall house, floor inserted C18, rear extensions to form a new symmetrical N front C19. Timber frame roughcast, painted brick casing up to heads of ground floor windows. N extensions in painted brickwork. Steep old red tile roofs half-hipped at E end. A long, 1½-storeys, internal chimney plan house in an isolated farmstead, entered from S but with C19 N extension with single-storey centre between 2 lower wings ending in canted bay windows. Gabled dormer central on main roof. S front has 4 gabled dormers at eaves. 5 windows at ground floor, 2-canted and one rectangular bay windows. Door near W end flanked by 2-lights casement windows. 5 structural bays with entrance into 2nd from W. W bay axially divided. Axial chamfered beams with hollow stops. Exposed posts in walls. N extension has encaustic tiles, coloured glass margin to leaded lancet lights. 2-panel ovolo-moulded door. Edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts in old wallplate. Old strap hinges to doors.

Listing NGR: TL3341208550