Stone House

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET 652-1/10/60 (East side) 05/04/67 No.123 Stone House

GV II

House, now offices. c1750 with some C19 and C20 restoration. Dressed stone with ashlar front, and brick rear wing; double-gabled tile roof with stacks. Georgian style. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plat band over ground floor and first-floor sill band; top dentilled cornice and pediment the width of the building. Round-headed entrance has impost bands and fanlight with thick radial glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door; steps with wrought-iron handrails; flanking canted bay windows have cornices over 4/4:10/10:4/4 sash windows, that to left with lower glazing bars removed, and flat roofs extended as hood over entrance. First floor windows have balustraded aprons; the central window with architrave, frieze and consoled, dentilled, cornice over 6/6 sash; the central second-floor window has sill, and architrave to 3/3 sash. Outer windows in tall round-headed recesses with, to first floor, tripartite sashes with 2/2:6/6:2/2 glazing and, to second floor, Diocletian windows with apron panels and central 3/3 sashes. Rear wing has rubble plinth and 5 round-headed recesses with stone imposts; first floor has segmental-headed recesses with small later windows; to right a lean-to outshut with small attached gabled wing. INTERIOR: has dog-leg staircase with square newels, simply turned balusters with middle cubes and moulded handrails. (Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206-12; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 310).

Listing NGR: SP1512566104