Description

TL 96 NE STOWLANGTOFT KILN LANE

2/126 Stowlangtoft Hall
15.11.54

GV II

Nursing home; built as a large country house. 1859, by H. Hakewill for Fuller
Maitland Wilson. In the Italianate Style. Gault brick with dressings of
limestone. Flat roofs behind parapets of limestone: open balustrading in
sections with urn balusters. Internal chimneys of gault brick with moulded
limestone cappings. The north entrance front is of two tall storeys: central
block of 3 windows, deeply recessed (at 1st storey only) between wings of 2
windows. To left is the extensive service range: set forward, 3 storeys, 6
windows. A further lower service range of 2 storeys to left again. To left
of the main block and set forward is a prominent 4-stage Italianate tower.
Sashes with segmental heads of gauged brick and large panes. A central Doric
portico porch of limestone with a pair of columns supporting a flat
entablature and open balustrading: the entrance doorway has a pair of doors
with 3 fielded panels, and above is a round-arched fanlight. The tower has at
the lowest stage a coved niche, and above on two faces are carved coats of
arms in limestone of the Wilson family. The next stage has an open
balustraded balcony with Ionic columns in antis; the arch above has the.
tympanum filled with terracotta tiles. Open balustraded parapets above a
heavy moulded cornice. To the east end of the garden elevation is attached by
a loggia, a 5-window garden house with a domed glass roof: small-pane sashes
with segmental heads. Interior: In the large 2-storeyed entrance hall is a
marble fireplace of early C18: reused from elsewhere and perhaps from the
former Stowlangtoft Hall which stood further south until demolished in early
C19. A plaster ceiling in the French roccoco style and another in the Adam
manner.

Listing NGR: TL9621968930

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283827

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]