Stainton House

STAINTON AND HEMLINGTON ROAD, NZ 41 SE (4814) THORNTON south side. 5/117 No. 2 (Stainton House) - II. Vicarage, c.1800, and mid/late C19 right service extension. Now used as guest house and conference centre. Painted roughcast; Lakeland slate roofs with stone gable copings. 2-storey, (north) 3-window entrance front, has renewed central projecting quasi-Tuscan porch, and 6-panel door in wood architrave. Sash windows with glazing bars, left and right tripartite; Venetian window,with intersecting head, above doorway. Renewed end and 2 ridge stacks with stone caps. Lower, slightly-projecting 2-storey extension has 2 staircase windows at left end; 5 ground-floor windows, 3 first-floor windows: sashes with shaped sills and first-floor lintels. Shaped kneeler and renewed stack at right end. Left return has 2 renewed ground-floor windows with glazing bars. 4-bay garden front has 2-storey segmental-plan bay windows; each has 3 sashes with glazing bars on each floor. Late C20 part-glazed door left of centre. Sashes renewed on first floor. Painted stone sills. 4-window left extension. INTERIOR altered c.1968, but retains richly-moulded ceiling cornices on both floors, panelled doors in wood architraves, and panelled shutters. Late C20 one-storey outhouse, adjoining C19 extension, is not of special interest. Service extension included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ4806514019