Stubb House

NZ 11 NW WINSTON A67 (South side, off)

5/47 Stubb House 14.9.66 11*

Country house. Late C17 with additions in mid C18 and in 1816. Late C17 rear wing dressed sandstone with graduated green slate roof. Mid C18 central block and flanking pavilions of 1816: sandstone ashlar; roofs not visible; corniced ashlar stacks.

Central block: 3 storeys, 5 x 3 bays; low plinth, raised quoins, bands and strings, the top string modillioned. Central half-glazed double door and fanlight with intersecting tracery in open-pedimented Roman Doric doorcase. Flanking 12-pane sashes in Gibbs surrounds. First floor: central 12-pane sash above blind balustraded apron has eared architrave, double keystone and floating cornice; flanking 12-pane sashes in architraves. Second floor has five 6-pane sashes in architraves; modillioned cornice and panelled parapet above. Left and right returns have similar fenestration and lateral stacks which rise above parapet.

Slightly-projecting, single-storey pavilions have low plinth and recessed centre with segmental-headed French windows flanked by panelled piers. Bowed returns have 3 French windows, cornice and low parapet.

2-storey, 3-bay rear wing has rusticated quoins, band between floors and 12-pane sashes in architraves.

Interior: mid C18 features including 6-panel doors; window shutters and several contemporary chimney-pieces.

Late C20 additions to rear and right not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ1212415794