Description

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD
SP 91 SE
(West side)
5/78 Farmhouse at
- Stocks Farm
GV II
Farmhouse. 1908 by Smith and Brewer for Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the
novelist, who then lived at Stocks House, (q.v.). Plum brick with red
brick dressings, wooden eaves cornice and steep hipped red tile roof. A
2-storeys, 5 windows wide, symmetrical subdued Queen Anne revival house
facing E. Red brick plinth carried up as aprons to lower windows, red
rusticated interrupted quoins, triple brackets to wide painted eaves
cornice, and 2 large square chimneys symmetrically placed just to rear
of ridge. Flush box sash windows with segmental heads under 2 rings
segmental red brick arches with 6/6 panes. Central door with upper half
panelled, wooden doorcase with oval fluted pilasters and segmental
pediment, and one brick step. 2 windows to each floor on S end.
Single-storey outhouse adjoining on N. Included for group value. (Ernest:
Willmott, English House Design, London (1911) 209).

Listing NGR: SP9649313209

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26395026

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990