Monk End Hall Explained

Monk End House is a historic building in Croft-on-Tees, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

In the Mediaeval period, a house on the site was owned by St Mary's Abbey, York.[1] The current building may retain some 15th century material, but mainly dates from the early 18th century. At one time, the conservatory was used as a schoolroom. The house was grade II listed in 1968. In 2011, it was sold for £2.25 million, the most expensive property in the Darlington area between 2000 and 2024.[2]

The house is built of brown brick, with a dentilled eaves course and a hipped Westmorland slate roof. There is a U-shaped plan, with a main range of three storeys and five bays. In the centre of the east front is a round-arched doorway with Roman Doric three-quarter columns with fluted capitals, an entablature with paterae, a fanlight with decorative glazing, and an open pediment. The windows are sashes with flat brick arches. At the rear is a chamfered mullioned basement window, and in the left return is a two-storey canted bay window.[3]

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  1. Book: A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1 . 1914 . Victoria County History . London . 4 July 2024.
  2. News: Burgess . Tom . Darlington's most expensive home sold since the millenium . 4 July 2024 . Darlington and Stockton Times . 10 March 2024.
  3. Book: Grenville. Jane. Pevsner . Nikolaus . Nikolaus Pevsner . The Buildings of England. Yorkshire: The North Riding. . 2023 . 1966 . New Haven and London . 978-0-300-25903-2 .