Cumberland House is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1949. A Georgian House, surgery.
Cumberland House
- WRENN ID
- white-banister-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1949
- Type
- House, surgery
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STONE
SJ9033 HIGH STREET, Stone 651-1/7/25 (South West side) 09/03/49 No.8 Cumberland House
GV II
House, now surgery. Early to mid C18. Stucco; tile roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Moulded plinth and top entablature with pulvinated frieze; rusticated end pilasters. Entrance has aedicule with Doric half-columns with fluted capitals and Ionic entablature, fanlight with decorative glazing bars and 6-panel door. Windows have sills and 12-pane sashes, 9-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Rear has 2 gabled wings with coped gables. INTERIOR: open-well stair to right of hall has closed string, column-on-vase balusters, square newels and moulded handrail; fielded-panelled dado; many rooms have rich Adam-style fireplaces, some with relief panels of figures; some rooms have enriched dado rails and cornices, modillioned cornice to entrance hall. The Duke of Cumberland is said to have stayed here, 1745. A good example of an early Georgian town house.
Listing NGR: SJ9028833802
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