Stoke Ferry Hall

Stoke Ferry Hall is a house, now used as offices, built in 1792. It is constructed of brick and has a double pile plan with a central passage. The building stands three storeys tall and features five bays, with the central bay projecting forward. The entrance includes a panelled central door flanked by sidelights and topped with an 8-vaned fanlight. This is set within a door case that consists of a pair of Tuscan columns with palmette capitals, supporting a block entablature and an open dentiled pediment. There is a rendered string course at the first floor level, and all windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set beneath gauged skewback arches. The ground floor windows are recessed under blank tympana, and a subsidiary rendered string course highlights these tympana. A dentil course runs below a moulded brick cornice, leading to a rebuilt parapet. The facade features ramped walls that enclose a garden on the left and a rear yard on the right, each with a pedestrian door. The rear elevation includes a one-storey mid-20th century brick extension with a sloping roof, which is not included in the listing. The north and south returns each have two flat chimney breasts.

Inside, a three-bay hall leads to a staircase lobby, with the bays defined by pilasters and a continuous dentil frieze below a groined plaster barrel vault. There are panelled double doors beneath a 6-vaned fanlight. The open well staircase has cut-string with scrolled tread ends, thin square section balusters, and a wreathed handrail. The upper stair-well features a frieze of palmettes, while the ground floor rooms have moulded cornices above friezes decorated with floral patterns.