Monk's Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Monk's Retreat
- WRENN ID
- narrow-alcove-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Monk's Retreat, Monkton Combe, BA2 7EX
- OS grid reference
- ST 771 619
- Coordinates
- 51.35603, -2.32883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monk's Retreat is a house, possibly originally a priest's house and later a farmhouse, dating from the 16th century and altered over time. It is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings and has a pantile roof with coped raised verges. The building has two storeys.
The main (south) elevation overlooks the churchyard and features three plain two-light casement windows on the ground floor. On the first floor, there are two three-light casements, one with pointed heads and hollow chamfered surrounds on the right, and the other with four-centred heads and chamfered surrounds on the left, both under a dripmould.
On the west gable end, the four-centre heads of a two-light window are visible, with a 20th-century door inserted. The north side displays a two-light casement with chamfered mullions and four-centred heads, along with a lateral stack that is corbelled out at the first floor level. There is also a 20th-century door in the east gable end and an 18th-century two-light casement window to the left.
Local climate
Monk's Retreat receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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