NHER 45632 (Building record) - Toft Monks House, screen wall and stable, Yarmouth Road

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Summary

Toft Monks House was built in 1819 for William Grimmer Senior. This two storey house is of gault brick with a hipped slate roof, and has a south facade of five bays. The central doorway has sidelights under a large semicircular fanlight, a rusticated stone surround, and a six-panelled entrance door. There is an attached screen wall at the southeast corner, with blind arcading, linking to a stable or coach house. This is one and half storeys high and constructed of gault brick, with a pantiled roof and coped gabled ends.

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Location

Map sheet TM49NW
Civil Parish TOFT MONKS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

October 1987. Listed, Grade II.
Toft Monks House including attached screen wall and stable, Yarmouth Road.
House. Built 1819 for William. Grimmer Senior (datestone adjoining main entrance door). Gault brick. Hipped slate roof with central flat. Two storeys, three x five bays. South facade of five bays, the centre bay advanced and pedimented.
Sashes with glazing bars, rubbed skewback arches over openings. Central doorway with sidelights under large semicircular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Rusticated stone surround. Six panelled entrance door, panelled architrave with corner paterae. Stone platbands at first floor level and cill level above. Centre first floor window has blind balustrade between platbands. Wooden eaves cornice. West facade of five bays, bays one and five slightly advanced with ground floor sashes set in semicircular arched recesses. Blind balustrade below first floor windows, set between platbands. Chimney stacks symmetrically placed behind ridge line. Attached screen wall at southeast corner with blind arcading linking to stable/coach house.
Coach House has 1 and a 1/2 storeys, gault brick, pantiled roof with coped gable ends. Large central double doors with louvred tops. Left-hand openings blind, semicircular headed on ground floor. Loft door and stable entrance to right of main doors. Tripartite segmental fanlight over central door opening. Rubbed brick arches over openings.
Information from (S1).

  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 737.
  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1304146.

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Record last edited

Aug 22 2018 2:53PM

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