Monument House

Monument House is a town house dating from around 1770, although it may incorporate an earlier structure. Minor alterations were made in the late 20th century, with a small addition on the north side. The building is constructed of red brick with stone details, and it has a hipped slate roof with segmental dormers. It forms an L-plan with a front block and a rear wing to the right.

The front is three storeys high with a cellar and attic, and has four bays of varying widths. A stone crowning cornice is present, with close-set modillions. A recessed entrance porch is located in the third bay from the left; this is framed by stone pilasters and features an applied, Gothick style crocketted ogee arch with a foliated finial above. A stepped cornice sits on brackets, arched centrally above the finial. Inside the porch are five stone steps leading to the doorway, which has a six-panel door with fielded upper panels and a basket-arched fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The ground and first floors have sash windows with 3x4 panes of glazing, while the second floor has shorter sashes with 3x3 panes. The windows are set within brick flat-arched heads that project, with keystones and projecting stone sills. There are three dormers above the first, third and fourth bays from the left, each with sashes containing 2x2 panes of glazing. The former segmental-arched windows to the cellar have been blocked.

The interior rooms on the ground floor, now part of a flat, are accessed through a 20th-century lobby added to the north side. The main dwelling’s upper floors are entered from a ground-floor hall and staircase. The front room to the left of the hall retains original moulded joinery, including skirting, a chair rail, architraves to the windows, and a bracketed ceiling cornice which breaks forward above each window. It also has a 19th-century fireplace surround. A room to the right has an arched recess in the south wall and a dentil ceiling cornice. The main dwelling features an 18th-century open-well staircase extending the full height of the house, with a curtail step, open string with shaped tread-end brackets, two column-on-vase balusters per tread, and a ramped handrail. On the first floor, a room to the left has dado panels with a moulded chair rail, a dentil ceiling cornice, and a 19th-century fireplace. A brick-walled and vaulted cellar is also present.