St Marthas Convent (The Mount House) With Attached Stable Block

1. 5004 CAMLET WAY Monken Hadley

St Martha's Convent (The Mount House) with attached stable block TQ 2597 9/8 18.7.49

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1. Mid C18. A fine red brick mansion with stone dressings, quoins and string course. Two storeys. Main elevation of 5 windows with the centre 3 set slightly forward under pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars. Central doorway on a large scale. Ionic columns frame a 6 panel door with a fanlight and pediment. Bullseye window in eaves pediment. Modillion cornice, parapet, hipped roof. Lawn elevation altered by 2 circa 1800 full height bows each with 3 sash windows. Cantilevered stair with 2 fluted balusters to each tread, and ramped handrail. The home 1836-1863 of J H Green the editor of 'Spiritual Philosophy; founded on the teachings of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge', written in the house and published in 1866. Also the wartime home 1941-45 of the Architectural Association School. Stable block to the right of the house is contemporary. Red brick with tiled roof. Two storeys, 2 windows flank each side of a tall rusticated archway with pediment and clock tower over. Clock turret with 2 segmented and 2 triangular pediments on the faces, domed cupola above. Band between floors. Arched openings below. Bullseyes and sashes with balustraded aprons above. Screen walls of red brick flank the house with a pedimented archway ball finials on either side.

Listing NGR: TQ2534097636