Mundenbury (60 Metres To North North East Of St Nicholas'S Church)

Mundenbury is a house dating to circa 1700, with alterations incorporating an older part at the east end. The brickwork is red with random black headers, but the upper part of the end wall is timber framed and weatherboarded. It has an old red tile gambrel roof. The older part at the east end is a lower timber framed and weatherboarded wing under a steep old red tile roof, with one and a half storeys and gabled to front and rear.

The main house is a large, two-storey building with an attic and cellar, facing south with five windows. It features hybrid construction, with a brick box and timber framing for internal walls and part of the east end. The house has a deep-plan with a central entrance, rear stair, and end chimneys. Shallow service rooms are located at the rear, behind two front rooms. The dining room at the east end is the former hall, featuring a wide open fireplace with niches in the back wall. The parlour to the west and the chamber above have smaller open fireplaces with curved backs. The rear fenestration was originally designed for a single-storey timber framed kitchen (demolished in the late 20th century), accessed by steps in the rear east room on a lower level. A contemporary stair continues up to four attics.

The symmetrical south front has a projecting plinth, a moulded floor band and a moulded wooden eaves cornice. There are two lean-to dormers with two-light casement windows in the steep front slope of the gambrel roof. Gauged brick flat arches frame flush box sash windows with moulded architraves and 6/6 panes. A circa 1800 doorcase features fluted panelled pilasters and a panelled hood on cross-fluted ogee brackets, leading to a half-glazed door with a moulded surround, panelled reveals, and a rectangular fanlight. The rear elevation is simpler, with a high plinth, a plain floor band, box eaves, and segmental arches over flush box sash windows with 19th-century sashes.

The interior features ovolo-moulded two-panel doors with H hinges, and a fine closed-string dog-leg stair with a moulded pine string, but oak newels (with ball finials and knob pendants), an oak handrail, and turned balusters. The stairs have oak treads and winders, but pine risers. A brick inscribed '1702' was formerly in the east chimney stack, indicating an earlier construction date. Mundenbury is a fine house of circa 1700, notable for its transitional planning and construction.