Toft Monks House Including Attached Screen Wall And Stable

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.