Description

STANFORD WITH ORLETON CP STANFORD BRIDGE SO 76 NW

6/184 Stanford Court

6.10.52

GV II

House in landscaped park, now offices. Mid-C18, partly rebuilt in 1886-8 after a fire with further mid-C20 alterations. Brick, part ashlar-faced, with ashlar dressings; plain tiled hipped roofs with groups of large, mainly star-shaped ridge stacks. U-plan; the north elevation is recorded as being the only surviving C18 part; the south range with its projecting wings is late C19. Two storeys and cellar; chamfered plinth; partly with moulded eaves cornice and blocking course, partly with dentilled eaves cornice. South entrance elevation: 2:6:2 bays; quoin strips to projecting wings; windows have moulded stone architraves and are all plain sashes. Entrance doors in two central bays; left one has inserted plain sash; right one has apanelled door and large transom light. Windows in side elevation have gauged flat heads and ashlar keyblocks and sills. North elevation: 6:1:6 bays; central bay occupied by full-height semi-circular bay window projection; giant pilasters at ends and main bay divisions; plain sash windows except second bay which has a 4-panelled door and a square light above and ground floor of twelfth and thirteenth bays which are blind; three large plain sashes in central bay. Interior: mainly C19. Hall to rear centre has semi-circular-headed arcading around two sides on both floors; also large elaborately carved chimneypiece and open well staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Ornately moulded ceilings throughout. Good marble fireplace and also a panelled timber fireplace to west of ground floor. (VCH 4, p 342; BoE p 263).

Listing NGR: SO7067565663

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6