Stourton Castle

Stourton Castle is a large house built on the site of a medieval castle. It includes some late medieval and 16th-century elements but was remodeled and partly rebuilt in 1832-33 in a late Gothic style by James Foster, based on designs by Sir Robert Smirke. The building is constructed of red brick with plain tile roofs featuring shaped gables and brick stacks. The main front, completed in 1832-33, faces west and incorporates a late medieval gate tower. Surrounding the other three sides of what was once an open courtyard are 16th-century ranges to the north, south, and east, which Foster roofed over.

The west front has two storeys and features a moulded brick parapet band and a plain parapet. It is arranged in a 1:3:1 bay pattern, with the central range recessed between flanking gabled wings. The windows are mullioned and transomed casements with raised surrounds, and the central range's windows have small gables above them, resembling pseudo-arrow slits that match those of the wings. The central gate tower rises three storeys and has moulded offsets and a crenellated parapet. It is rendered and lined to look like ashlar, with a pointed entrance that has a moulded surround. The second-storey window features two trefoil-headed lights beneath a segmental pointed arch.

In the re-entrant angles between the central range and the flanking wings are two-storey bays with parapets and windows of two round-headed lights; the left bay includes a four-centred doorway. The interior was completely remodeled in 1832-33, featuring a plaster fan-vaulted entrance with figure corbels. The former courtyard now serves as an entrance hall, which includes a Tudor-style stone fireplace.