Stapeley House

STAPELEY C.P. LONDON ROAD SJ 65 SE 8/42 Stapeley House 10.6.52

• II

Small Country House (now offices). Late C18 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. Three storeys. Entrance front: three bays symmetrically disposed. Central stone frontispiece having a doorway to the ground floor in a C19 surround with a tripartite arrangement to the door consisting of a unglazed door with lateral lights of 1 x 4 panes divided by ashlar pilasters and having a segmental relieving arch above and chamfered rustication to the ashlar surround which appears to be a C19 replacement of a simpler C18 surround. Above at first floor level is a central 2-light casement window with niches to either side and a pediment over the whole. Square sash window to the second floor. To either side are C19 canted bay windows of 2-storeys height and to the second floor and 2 square sash windows at each side. There are C19 chamfered stone quoins to the corners and an C18 cyma-moulded cornice and parapet above of solid brick to the middle but with stone piers and shaped balusters to the sides. To the right is a wing of three lower storeys and four bays and to the left a single storey C20 additions. There are extensive C20 additions to the rear.

Listing NGR: SJ6706850470