Monkswood

Monkswood is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and has undergone alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of rubble with stone dressings, rendered on the left side, and features a triple-roll tiled roof with raised coped verges and kneelers, along with a double Roman tiled rear block and ridge stacks.

Originally designed with a three-room plan, the house stands 2½ storeys high and has five windows across the front. The ground floor includes four three-light casements with ovolo-moulded mullions and hood moulds. The second bay from the right features a plank door with a stone bolection-moulded surround. The first floor has four two-light casements with moulded mullions, and there is a single light window in the same surround above the door. Two dormer gables each contain a two-light casement similar to those on the first floor, and all windows on the house are 19th-century casements.

To the left, there is a single-storey bakehouse that has a two-light window with a square mullion and moulded jambs. The left return of the building has a single light window on the first floor with moulded jambs and a two-light attic window with a moulded mullion like those on the first floor. The right return features a three-light casement with ovolo mullions and a hood mould on the ground floor, and a two-light casement at the first floor with a bolection-moulded surround set back from a flat architrave. The attic has a two-light casement with a moulded mullion and frame.

At the rear, there is a catslide roof over service rooms behind the rear passage, which includes a two-light window with a wood frame, flat mullion, and iron stanchions to the left, along with a single light window above in a plain surround. There is a weathered external stack and a single-storey block with a pitched roof attached to the catslide roof, featuring a double door and a 19th-century three-light casement. Inside, there is a passage running along the rear of the house and a 19th-century straight stair rising from the passage.