There are only echoes of Virginia Woolf at Monk's house but the house is full of reminders of the talented circle in which she moved. Virginia's sister Vanessa and her art critic husband Clive Bell set up home with the artist Duncan Grant at Charleston, an 18th century farmhouse ten miles away across the South Downs. At Monk's House there are pieces of painted furniture by Vanessa and Duncan Grant in post-Impressionist style. In the sitting room there is a table and chairs in muted abstract designs relieved by a panel of peaches on the back of each chair. Decorated china by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and her son Quentin is displayed on the mantlepiece and in the dresser in the tiny kitchen.
Every room is hung with paintings by the family circle.
There are paintings and portraits by Vanessa including a haunting likeness of Virginia. The garden is still as the couple left it. There is a large open lawn where they played bowls, some fine old trees and three ponds. Near the house there is a formal garden where paths, yew hedges and flint walls shelter a herbaceous area. There is an orchard under-planted with different species of daffodils and autumn crocuses.