The Stainton Public House

STAINTON AND MELDYKE LANE, NZ 41 SE (4814) THORNTON east side. 5/121 The Stainton public house - II. Public house, date 1897, and mid-C20 right extension. Smooth red brick, pebbledash on first floor, and sandstone ashlar porch. Plain clay tiled roof with stone gable copings. Clay pantiles on extension, with concrete gable copings and dressings. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Central, projecting, wavy-gabled porch with panelled part-glazed doors set behind wrought iron gate, with scrolled panels, in moulded basket-headed surround with applied metal letters: "1897" flanking giant keystone. Short diagonal buttresses at angles of porch. Slightly-projecting casement windows with glazing bars and wood cornices: 3-light, with round-headed centre, on ground-floor left; one-light on ground-floor right; 5-light, the middle 3 canted, on wood bracket, on first floor left; and 3-light at right. Continuous egg-and-dart sill mouldings. Scrolled wrought-iron bracketed sign between bays on first floor. Deep plain soffit. 2 canted flat-roofed dormers with similar windows and cornices. End stacks. Lower part of left gable crowstepped. One-storey right extension has tripartite casement window at left of part-glazed double doors, in flat surrounds. Rear one-storey extension is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4803614132