Monksbridge

TQ 16NW SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD THAMES STREET Sunbury 4/80 Monksbridge 9/12/69

GV II

House. Mid-Late C18 with C19 and C20 extensions. Brown brick with pebbledash cladding on ground floor, rendered stucco dressings and hipped, Mansard, slate roofs. Rectangular plan, at right angles to street with extension to left facing street. Two storeys and attics with rear, river front of three storeys where ground drops away. Flat roofed glazing-bar sash dormers, one either side of central pediment in entrance front; further attic window in pediment tympanum. Multiple cross-ridge stacks on plinths to left, centre and right. 5 bays to entrance elevation with plat band over ground floor, and to pediment, and with glazing-bar sash fenestration. Three 12-pane windows to first floor, central one C20, with round-arched, blind-panel surrounds; one sash window to ground floor left casement window to right. Central door of six fielded panels under tracery transome light with attached, fluted, Roman Doric half-columns in antis under lintel frieze of wreath/garlands. Two flights of steps in Sedan arrangement with C20 square piers supporting urns and wrought iron railings. Two storey extension to left facing street with eaves cornice and parapet, set back above. One first floor sash window, two end casements below. Three blocked, cambered-head windows to first floor of street elevation, one tripartite sash window and further sash in angle. Rear:- two flat roofed dormers, one either side of round-arched centre dormer on parapet. Centre bay breaks forward with "Venetian" window on the first floor, with corbelled sill, and flanking sash window to right dropping down through string course over the ground floor. Projecting single storey extensions to ground floor. River elevation:- Bowed elevation over basement with cornice over first floor, plat band below. Three windows on each floor of the bow, 15-pane, glazing-bar sashes to first floor. In the 1920s, the late Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales reputedly visited the house frequently.

Listing NGR: TQ1106868714