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Monasteroris House

country house
Monasteroris House
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Detached U-plan five-bay two-storey former country house, built c.1780, with central pedimented breakfront and flanking single-storey pavilions and extension to rear elevation. Burned and rebuilt c.1940. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone front elevation, rendered side and rear elevations with tooled limestone quoins, limestone eaves course and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with limestone surrounds with keystones and sills and replacement aluminium windows. Group of three windows above entrance porch. Square-headed door opening with limestone architrave surround, limestone cornice supported by corbels and a timber panelled door. Door set within a semi-circular entrance porch supported by limestone Doric columns and accessed up seven limestone steps flanked by wrought-iron railings. Two-storey ranges to rear enclose yard and create flanking set-back pavilions to the main house. Hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, pebbledashed walls, Diocletion and square-headed window openings and carriage arch and square-headed door openings with limestone surrounds to outbuildings. Walled gardens to south and south-east of house. Front site accessed through octagonal limestone piers. Gate missing. Gate lodge and entrance gates to road. Icehouse to south of house.
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