Description

SHIPSTON ON STOUR NEW STREET
SP2540 (West side)
14/117 No.2 (The Council House)
30/03/84 (Formerly listed as Old
Council Offices)

GV II

Public building, now offices. Late C19. Squared, coursed lias with quoins, with
ashlar bay to right. Storey band and coped parapet. Slate mansard roof. 2
storeys plus attic; 4-window range. Rectangular plan. In ashlar bay to right a
C19 plank door with fanlight in round-headed arch. Stone pilaster surround with
shallow flat hood. To 4 ground and first floor openings a 12-pane sash with
quoined surround. 3 round-headed dormers behind parapet. Right gable end has
round-headed sash flanked by blind round-headed openings with 4 stone Doric
pilasters between and on either side of windows, with large tripartite sash to
first floor with scroll surround and moulded entablature. Round-headed dormer
above with moulded stone surround and ball finial. Rubble bay to right has plank
door with tall overlight and quoined surround with 12-pane sash above. Interior
not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP2584740523

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587006

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)