Stoneshey Gate House

A large house, dating from 1784. The front of the building is two storeys high and constructed in ashlar stone, while the rear is three storeys high and built in hammer-dressed stone. It has a stone slate roof. The front features rusticated quoins, an eaves cornice with decorative gutter brackets, coped gables with kneelers, and a prominent stack with a large multiflued central chimney. The facade is six bays wide, arranged as A B A A B A. The doorway in the second bay has an architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and the date '1784' set into the tympanum of a triangular pediment. The doorway in the fifth bay has monolithic jambs, frieze, and cornice. All windows have simple stone surrounds with projecting sills; the ground floor windows are wider and were probably formerly tripartite, with single sash windows on the first floor. The glazing has been altered. The right-hand return wall is watershot and includes a Venetian window to the attic, which retains its original leaded lights and Gothic-glazed central section. The rear of the house has five bays. A semi-circular arched stairwell window, with impost blocks and a keystone featuring a Gothic-glazed fanlight, is set into the fourth bay. All other bays have flat-faced mullioned windows of 3, 4, 5, and 6 lights. Inside the stair hall, a dog-leg cantilevered stone staircase has turned wooden balustrades (two to each riser) and a slender ramped handrail.