Monks House

THORPE UNDERWOODS THORPE GREEN LANE SE 45 NE (east side) 7/61 Monk's House (formerly listed 15/3/66 as Thorpe Underwood) II House. C17; part rebuilt and extended in mid C18; further C20 alteration and modernisation. Original house red brick in irregular English garden wall bond, with cement-rendered brick mullions and window surrounds. Extension orange-red brick in stretcher bond. Stone slate roofs. Original house lobby-entry plan with parallel rear wing, later extended to form L-shaped plan. 2-storey, 3-bay front. Original doorway blocked by 2-light, small-pane casement, beneath blocked 2-light mullioned window on first floor. Remaining windows are of 5 mullioned and transomed lights, with square-leaded casements on ground floor, and C19 or C20 decorative glazing on first floor. Mullions are chamfered, and windows recessed in quoined, double-chamfered surrounds beneath fasciated projecting lintels. Three conjoined diagonal stacks in centre of roof ridge. Rear: one original 2-light mullioned window survives at first floor right. Gable end of original rear wing to left, at right angles, with two original mullioned windows above inserted 3-light ground floor window. Blocked 2-light mullioned window in attic, beneath brick coped, shaped gable end. Left return: original 2-light mullioned windows to all floors, that on ground floor with replacement small-pane casements. Single inserted light at ground floor left. Eaves string course. Tear- shaped sunk panel in brick surround in shaped gable apex. Right return: 2-storey-and-attic, 1-window gable wall, at left of 2-storey, 2-window extension. 5-light mullioned and transomed windows on ground and first floors of gable wall: blocked 3-light mullioned window in attic, above eaves string course. Brick-coped, shaped gable. Extension has central 4-panel door in projecting gabled porch. 3-light windows throughout, small-pane casements to right of door, and horizontal sliding sashes, with square-leaded lights, elsewhere. Centre and right end stacks. Monk's House has strong associations with Anne and Branwell Bronte, who lived there from c.1841 as tutors to the children of Rev.Edmund Robinson. York Georgian Society, Annual Report for 1984.

Listing NGR: SE4632859451