Toft Monks House Including Attached Screen Wall and Stable is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. House. 6 related planning applications.
Toft Monks House Including Attached Screen Wall and Stable
- WRENN ID
- vacant-tin-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Toft Monks House Including Attached Screen Wall and Stable, Yarmouth Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 430 955
- Coordinates
- 52.50375, 1.58041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, built in 1819 for William Grimmer Senior, as indicated by a datestone near the main entrance. It is constructed of gault brick with a hipped slate roof, featuring a central flat section. The house is two storeys high and comprises three bays across and five bays in length. The south facade has five bays, with the central bay projecting and topped by a pediment. It has sash windows with glazing bars, each with rubbed skewback arches above them. The central doorway features sidelights and a large semicircular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, set within a rusticated stone surround. The entrance door itself is six-panelled, with a panelled architrave and ornamental corner details. Stone platbands are present at first-floor level and above the window cills. The central first-floor window is flanked by a blind balustrade between the platbands. A wooden eaves cornice tops the building. The west facade has five bays, with the first and fifth bays projecting slightly, featuring ground-floor sashes set in semicircular arched recesses. A blind balustrade is positioned below the first-floor windows and between the platbands. Chimney stacks are placed symmetrically along the ridge line.
Attached to the south-east corner of the house is a screen wall with blind arcading, connecting to a stable or coach house. The stable has one-and-a-half storeys, is constructed of gault brick and has a pantiled roof with coped gable ends. It features a large central double door with louvred tops. The left-hand openings are blind, with semicircular arched heads on the ground floor. A loft door and a stable entrance are located to the right of the main doors. A tripartite segmental fanlight is above the central doorway, and rubbed brick arches are above the openings.
Local climate
Toft Monks House Including Attached Screen Wall and Stable receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings