Stokesay Castle And Gatehouse Including Moat Retaining Walls

Stokesay Castle and Gatehouse, including moat retaining walls, is a manor house built between 1391 and 1400, with a gatehouse added in the 17th century. The Great Hall features sandstone rubble and timber-frame construction, topped with a stone tile roof, and includes a spurred brick ridge stack and a paired ashlar ridge stack. The gatehouse is constructed of timber-frame and plaster on a rubble base, also with a stone tile roof that has a central gable to the east, a spurred brick ridge stack, and a stepped rubble exterior stack with an 18th-century brick chimney on the south side.

The layout consists of a courtyard plan with the gatehouse and bridge to the east, enclosed by a moat and rubble perimeter walls. The Great Hall has an entrance and three mullion and transom two-light windows under advanced gables, with solar cross-wings that have hipped roofs. The first floor jetties out and features lattice-glazed mullion windows on the north side. A polygonal tower to the south has a battlemented and embrasured parapet.

The gatehouse is two storeys with an attic and has a single-window range that includes a two-light lattice-glazed casement in an altered opening under a stop-moulded bressumer, and a three-light mullion casement in the gable above a moulded bressumer. Inside, there is a central passageway with a studded door to the rear, under an enriched four-centred arch between pilaster-moulded posts. This is flanked by two-light casements, one of which is in an altered opening. A 20th-century restored moulded bressumer separates the post and panel framing from the chevron-braced panels of the first floor, which features rich carvings and ornamentation. The rear of the gatehouse is similar, with a central moulded mullion and transom oriel with lattice glazing, two studded plank doors, and a three-light casement to the right.

The interior of the house features 17th-century panelling with a carved overmantel, stop-moulded ceiling beams, fireplaces, squints, and a staircase. The interior of the gatehouse has not been inspected.