Description

STAPELEY C.P. LONDON ROAD
SJ 65 SE
8/42 Stapeley House
10.6.52

- II

Small Country House (now offices). Late C18 with C19 and C20
additions and alterations. Red Flemish bond brick with ashlar
dressings and a slate roof. Three storeys. Entrance front: three
bays symmetrically disposed. Central stone frontispiece having a
doorway to the ground floor in a C19 surround with a tripartite
arrangement to the door consisting of a unglazed door with lateral
lights of 1 x 4 panes divided by ashlar pilasters and having a
segmental relieving arch above and chamfered rustication to the
ashlar surround which appears to be a C19 replacement of a simpler C18
surround. Above at first floor level is a central 2-light casement
window with niches to either side and a pediment over the whole.
Square sash window to the second floor. To either side are C19 canted
bay windows of 2-storeys height and to the second floor and 2 square
sash windows at each side. There are C19 chamfered stone quoins to
the corners and an C18 cyma-moulded cornice and parapet above of solid
brick to the middle but with stone piers and shaped balusters to the
sides. To the right is a wing of three lower storeys and four bays
and to the left a single storey C20 additions. There are extensive
C20 additions to the rear.

Listing NGR: SJ6706850470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Stapeley House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7600358

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