Monkton, Monkton Lane, The Grange

HER Number:
8167

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Monkton, Monkton Lane, The Grange

Place:
Monkton

Map Sheet:
NZ36SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
House. Mid-late C18, incorporating an earlier house. Brick; stone quoins; roof of Welsh slate, 2 storeys, 5 windows; central door, in ornate wooden porch, has 10 panels; flat brick arches with keystones over sash windows having glazing bars; roundels between bays over first floor windows. Right return to street has Gothic window under abarge-boarded hood. Roof is hip- ped, with 2 transverse ridge brick chimneys. Interior: original shutters throughout; dog-leg staircase has 2 turned balusters to a tread, with the local variation of diminishing length balusters at the turn, mahogony hand- rail with spiral curtail, dado rail complete in hall and stairs. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3209

Northing:
6374

Grid Reference:
NZ32096374

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 2/92; North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, March 2006, Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal; N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham (second edition)