Monmouth House

Monmouth House is a house dating from the 17th century, although it has been significantly altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of local stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a plain clay roof over stone slate base courses, with coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The house has an “H” shaped plan, with a three-bay south elevation. It features two-light hollow chamfered mullioned windows with flat surrounds and hood moulds, containing leaded panes and one iron-framed opening light per window. The entrance is on the east side, which is double gabled. It includes a central timber and stone porch, with a lower bay containing a window of an early pattern, and the remainder of this side appearing to be from the early 20th century. A datestone reading ‘M 1685’ is located above a window on this side, and may not be original. The interior has not been inspected. The house was formerly known as Priory House, as it is believed to have been a Tudor house utilizing stone from the Benedictine Yenston Priory, a cell of the French Abbey of St. Cever, which stood to the west of the house. It is reported that the outbuildings contain traces of the Priory’s own buildings.