Description

STAINTON AND STAINTON WAY,
NZ 41 SE (4913)
THORNTON south side (off).
5/122 Stainton Grange and
23.6.66 garden walls.
- II*
Farmhouse, early/mid C18, with late C19 rear extensions. Contemporary left
garden wall, and late C20 right wall. Brick with sandstone dressings. Clay
pantile roof with stone ridge and gable copings. Rendered end stacks.
L-plan. 3 storeys, 5 bays with slightly-projecting pedimented one-bay
centre. 2 steps up to central renewed panelled door, in Roman Doric
doorcase with segmental pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars and
moulded sills, under gauged-brick flat arches. Panelled shutters to
ground-floor windows. Middle first-floor window flanked by later smaller
casement windows. 6-pane 2nd-floor windows. Plinth, bands between floors,
chamfered quoins, and rendered parapet with moulded copings. Stepped garden
walls with stone copings adjoin left and right. Right return shows 3-window
wing with similar windows and renewed door up 3 steps. Large 24-pane
horizontal sash window on ground floor. End stack. Rear shows central pent
staircase wing with Venetian window, and 2-storey hip-roofed extension.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has open-well staircase, with shaped tread ends,
column-on-vase balusters with spiral turning and square knops, moulded
handrail ramped at ends and scrolled at bottom onto column newel and curtail
step. Dogleg back stair with similar but smaller balusters and closed
string. Ground-floor left room has modillion ceiling cornice, eared
architrave fireplace surround with scrolled foliage-ornamented pulvinated
frieze and egg-and-dart cornice. Similar eared and shouldered panel on
chimney above. Right room has altered fireplace under similar panel on
panelled pilasters. Moulded ceiling cornice above deep frieze enriched with
garlands of fruit and flowers. Similar cornices and fireplace surrounds on
first floor, and painted wood panelling. Panelled doors and reveals in wood
architraves throughout. Panelled window shutters and window seats on ground
and first floors. Wellfield House adjoining rear too much altered to be of
special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4904013736

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551878

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