Stagshaw House With Attached Gateway

SANDHOE STAGSHAW NY 96 NE 5/324 Stagshaw House, 15.4.69 with attached gateway

GV II

House, mid-C19 extended and altered 1920 by Hicks and Charlewood. Tooled-and- margined ashlar with raised quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof. South front in 3 parts: right section, the original house, 3 storeys, 3 bays. Plinth, modillion eaves cornice. 3 steps up to central glazed. door with patterned overlight, flanked by narrow sashes, all under cornice. 12-pane sash above, in architrave with cornice on brackets. Flanking 2-storey canted bays with renewed small-paned sashes under moulded cornices. On 2nd floor 5 plate-glass sashes with patterned lintels. Hipped roof with 2 tall stepped ridge stacks, with panelled shafts and broad swept cornices. Attached gateway to right has panelled piers and capitals with pomegranate finials, holding decorative wrought-iron gate. Right return shows projecting Tuscan porch with panelled double doors under radial fanlight and balustraded parapet. 2 storey domestic wing to rear.

On left a 3-storey recessed linking bay with 1st floor band, triple ground floor sash of 1920, 1st floor 12-pane sash under pedimented cornice and 2nd floor 12-pane sash. Large 1920 extension to left: 2 storeys, 3+3 bays. Right part set back behind Tuscan tetrastyle portico with balustrade above; left part has central bow with balustraded parapet. Hipped roof; banded-and-corniced ridge stack.

Formerly known as Stagshaw Close House, first recorded in the early C18.

Listing NGR: NY9848566799