Description

TR 26 SE STOURMOUTH EAST STOURMOUTH

(West Side)
2/248 Stourmouth House
13.10.52
GV II*

House. Early C18 front to C16 rear wing. Plum brick with red brick
dressings on main front. Timber framed with brick infill and slate cladding
on rear wing. Roof slated on front slope with plain tiled rear slope and
rear wing. Two storeys and attic on plinth with plat band with moulded
modillion eaves cornice. Central projecting block with brick quoins and
pediment. Hipped roof with 2 flat roofed dormers and stacks to left, to
right and to centre rear. Regular fenestration with pointed headed glazing
bar sash in pediment, with 5 glazing bar sashes, the centre 3 in pedimented
central black and 2 wooden casements at end left and at end right on first
floor, and 6 on ground floor with gauged heads. Central door of 8 raised and
fielded panels with segmental pediment on fluted pilasters with moulded
entablature raised to centre. Glazed conservatory on left return.
Interior: entrance hall with dado panelling and keyed elliptical headed
doorways with pilasters with raised entablature blocks. Ceiling joists with
tongued chamfers. Flagstone floor. Staircase: wreathed, moulded and ramped
handrail on turned balusters with square base knops and fluted principals, on
open string with carved brackets. Ramped raised and fielded dado panelling.
Open well plan. Some moulded dado and cornice rails in other downstairs
rooms. Principal upstairs rooms with raised and fielded panelling, the rear
walls with panelling stepped forward as if jettied into room. Exposed
upright timbers of rear timber framed wing in these rooms. Cellar with brick
arched niches, and barrel vaulted cellar. Rear wing with exposed timber frame,
C16 or early C17 stop chamfered joists. C17 newel stair with wavy splat
balusters. Much re-used timber from older wing in roof structure (clasped
purlins). Several names are carved in bricks by the main entrance, especially
of Thomas Dowker, and -- Harrison, 1754 (see B.O.E. Kent II).1983, 470).

Listing NGR: TR2659162615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557849

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)