Monks House

Monk's House is a house of 17th-century origins, with substantial rebuilding and extensions occurring in the mid-18th century, and further alterations and modernisation in the 20th century. The original core of the house is constructed of red brick in an irregular English garden wall bond, with cement-rendered brick mullions and window surrounds. Later extensions are in orange-red brick in a stretcher bond. The roofs are covered with stone slates. The original design was a lobby-entry plan with a parallel rear wing, later extended to form an L-shaped plan.

The front of the house is two storeys high, with three bays. The original doorway has been blocked and replaced with a two-light casement window. A blocked two-light mullioned window is located above it on the first floor. Remaining windows are generally of five mullioned and transomed lights, with square-leaded casements on the ground floor, and decorative glazing from the 19th or 20th century on the first floor. The mullions are chamfered and the windows are recessed within quoined, double-chamfered surrounds, beneath fasciated projecting lintels. Three conjoined diagonal stacks are situated on the ridge of the roof.

On the rear elevation, one original two-light mullioned window remains at first floor level on the right. The gable end of the original rear wing is set at right angles to the left and contains two original mullioned windows above an inserted three-light ground floor window. A blocked two-light mullioned window is found in the attic, beneath a brick-coped, shaped gable. The left return has original two-light mullioned windows to all floors, with replacement casements on the ground floor. A single inserted light is located at ground floor level on the left. An eaves string course runs around the house. A tear-shaped sunk panel is set within the brick surround of the shaped gable apex.

The right return features a two-storey-and-attic, single-window gable wall, set to the left of a two-storey, two-window extension. Five-light mullioned and transomed windows are found on the ground and first floors of the gable wall; a blocked three-light mullioned window is located in the attic, above the eaves string course. The extension has a central four-panel door within a projecting gabled porch. Three-light windows are present throughout the extension, with small-pane casements to the right of the door, and horizontal sliding sashes with square-leaded lights elsewhere. Centre and right-end stacks are also present.

Monk's House is associated with Anne and Branwell Brontë, who resided there around 1841 as tutors to the children of Rev. Edmund Robinson.