Monfin House

Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey house, built 1823, on a square plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1940. Resold, 2000. Restored, 2001. For sale, 2007. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves on rendered "Cavetto" cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of three cut-granite steps, timber doorcase with engaged columns on plinths supporting iron-covered cornice on roundel-detailed panelled frieze, and concealed dressings having concave reveals framing glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; square-headed door opening into staircase hall with carved timber surround framing timber panelled door; staircase hall (west) with moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled door, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (south-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; dining room (north-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and picture railing below plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; and (first floor): carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with rendered piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped capping supporting replacement tubular mild steel "farm gate".