Monkleigh House, Staddon House And Attached Outbuilding

Monkleigh House, along with the adjacent Staddon House and an attached outbuilding, is a vicarage, now divided into two separate houses. The origins of Staddon House date back to around 1500, and it was remodelled when Monkleigh House was built around 1808. The exterior is colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble, with a hipped slate roof and rendered brick ridge stacks. The building follows an L-plan, with a rear wing and an outbuilding attached to the rear of Staddon House on the left side. It is two storeys high and features a four-window range.

Monkleigh House, the symmetrical three-window section, includes a 20th-century porch with a half-glazed inner door containing glazing bars. The windows are 16-pane sashes above 20-pane sashes, all with decorative Gothick glazing bars within flat rendered arches. The bay to the left, belonging to Staddon House, has two similar, but asymmetrically placed, windows. The right side wall exhibits a symmetrical elevation, with a bowed central bay and matching sashes. A mid-19th century two-story extension featuring horned Gothick sashes and a main entrance has been placed to the left of Staddon House.

The interior of Monkleigh House is notable for its panelled doors and shutters, marble fireplaces, and a fine dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and fret-cut brackets. Within Staddon House, the ground floor contains moulded beams dating back to around 1500. Two of these beams have mortices indicating the former presence of a 16th-century plank and stud partition; a surviving section of this partition, adjoining the rear room, retains a Tudor-arched doorway with sunk spandrels, which was blocked in the 17th century. On the first floor, the bases of three trusses with curved feet are visible above the front room. Staddon House is believed to have been the chamber block and is the sole surviving part of the 16th-century parsonage house.

A 17th-century outbuilding is located at the rear of Staddon House, having been altered in the mid-19th century. Constructed of rendered cob and stone, it has a hipped Welsh slate roof and a stone ridge stack. The outbuilding includes a 19th-century plank door leading to a bakehouse, double doors to a coachouse, a 19th-century door to a stable, and double-entry access to a hay barn at the rear.