Stokes House

Stokes House is a house dated 1715, situated on the south side of Sheep Street in Shipston on Stour. The construction is of squared, coursed limestone with quoins. The building features a moulded and bracketed eaves cornice, a coped parapet with ball finials at each end, and a stone slate roof with a brick ridge and end stacks. The house is two storeys plus an attic, with a three-window front. It follows a two-unit, through-passage plan. The central entrance has a part-glazed six-panelled door within a moulded wooden surround, topped by a large moulded hood supported on consoles. To the right is a 19th-century four-light casement with a wooden lintel. To the left is an early 19th-century canted bay, featuring a sixteen-pane sash window on the front, flanked by twelve-pane sashes. A bracketed and moulded cornice runs along the top. The first floor has sixteen-pane sash windows to the left, centre, and right. There are three hipped dormers in the attic. A moulded datestone, bearing the inscription W/NK/1715 in bas-relief, is centrally located on the front of the building.

The interior includes a chamfered spine beam with stepped stops, a large open fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer and stepped stops, two-panelled doors with moulded rails, stone flagged floors in the passage, and an 18th-century dog-leg staircase with flat balusters. A timber and plaster partition is also present, along with some six-panelled doors.