House of the week: A four-bedroom century-old stone house in Bryn Mawr for $699,000

Elizabeth Monroe was living in New Jersey with her son in 2006 when she saw a listing in Bryn Mawr, and thought it might be time to go back to the town where she’d grown up. “I hadn’t even gone inside it,” she said. “but I loved the Tudor look and the stone. “It’s a soulful kind of house. A friend once called it my ‘sanctuary,’” she recalled.The four-bedroom, two-bathroom house spans 1,762 square feet.Monroe, an ordained Presbyterian minister who mostly worked as a hospice chaplain, said she had considerable renovations done, mostly on the first and second floors. The house, has a gated front porch, original hardwood floors, and deep-set windows. The kitchen has white cabinetry, black granite countertops, and updated appliances.The living room has a working gas fireplace.Each of the two se