Description

STOKE C.P. STOKE HALL LANE
SJ 65 NW
Stoke Hall
1/91
10 June 1952
II
GV

Mansion of early C19 appearance but with early C17 origins. Red
brick, in Flemish Bond, with slate roof. 3 -storey, 5-bay Garden
Front, 2 storey 8 bay Entrance Front (north) completing an "L" shaped
plan. 4-panel oak door, with lead-glazed side and overlights, in
inset porch with ovolo moulded plinth blocks, plain stone pilasters,
moulded responds, semi-circular archivolt, with keystone and ogee
cornice with dentils. Stone plinth and 3-course-deep brick
window-head-level string courses. Recessed sashes with stone sills,
glazing bars and wedge lintels or flat gauged skewback arches - in the
3 storey gable. There is a blocked oculus at first floor level and a
brick dentil course at eaves. The garden front (west) has a
half-glazed door in a doorcase with tapering fluted pilasters,
triglyth dosserets, radial bar fanlight and open pediment. Recessed
sashes with stone sills, glazing bars and gauged flat arches ground
and first floor, 2-light flush casements at second floor level. The
three storey section has old slates laid with diminishing courses and
lead hips, the slates on the two storey Entrance Front are later.
Tall 2-to-3-flue stacks with projecting blue brick caps.
Interior: The Oak Room, in the 3-storey section of the house, has two
moulded beams, carried by moulded consoles, and exposed ovolo-moulded
joists. There is an 11-panel oak door and 4-panels-high oak wall
panelling. The moulded stone fireplace has an oak chimney piece,
divided into three raised panels by four oak columns and surmounted by
a moulded cornice. The Stair Hall has two panels high oak dado
panelling and a staircase with cut and bracketed string turned
balusters and square newels. There are ovolo moulded beams in the
study and large ovolo moulded beams and exposed ceiling joists in the
kitchen. A room on the north side of the house has cased beams with
dentil cornices. There are a number of six-panel doors.

Listing NGR: SJ6228156708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Stoke Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979537

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (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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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)