Stonehouse

TL 00 NW NETTLEDEN WITH VICARAGE ROAD POTTEN END (South side) Potten End

5/224 Stonehouse -

GV II

House. Early C17, C18 brick front and rear outshut (possibly incorporating earlier stair tower), mid C19 rebuilding of N part and roof there (possibly 1863 when leased by Ashridge Estate to John Lane the nurseryman of Balshaw Nurseries), C20 low W wing. S end of uncoursed knapped flint with red brick dressings (name recorded in later C17 indicates flint was unusual in houses of the period), C18 red and blue brick to S half of E front and plastered red brick rear wall, C19 grey brick N half of E front, N end, and N part of W wall. Buff brick low W wing. Red tiled roofs, hipped S end. A 2-storeys L-shaped house facing E with 2 windows to each floor and central door. Segmental arches to recessed 2-lights casement windows. Flint S wall has had windows altered in C19 with one window above two 2-light casements. S part of house has a fine ovolo moulded axial floor beam c.1620 with rebated rib moulding along the edges of the joists. (Bryant (1982) VI 5).

Listing NGR: TL0158009096