Stoke Ferry Hall

TL 7099 STOKE FERRY THE HILL (west side) 14/46 Stoke Ferry Hall (previously listed 9.7.51 as the hall) G.V. II*

House, now offices. 1792. Brick. Roof not visible. Double pile plan with central passage. 3 storeys in 5 bays, the centre bay broken forward. Panelled central door with side lights beneath 8-vaned fanlight and set within door case comprising pair of Tuscan columns with palmette capitals supporting block entablature and open dentiled pediment. Rendered string course at first floor. All windows are sashes with glazing bars beneath gauged skewback arches, those to the ground floor recessed under blank tympana. Subsidiary rendered string course emphasises tympana. Dentil course below moulded brick cornice and rebuilt parapet. From facade ramped walls enclose garden (to left) and rear yard (to right), each with pedestrian door. Rear elevation with one storey mid C20 brick extension under sloping roof not included. North and south returns each with 2 flat chimney breasts. Interior. 3 bay hall leads to stair- case lobby : 3 bays defined by pilasters with continuous dentil frieze below groined plaster barrel vault. Panelled double doors below 6-vaned fanlight. Open well cut-string staircase with scrolled tread ends. Thin square section balusters and wreathed handrail. Upper stair-well frieze of palmettes. Ground floor rooms with moulded cornice above frieze of floral patterns.

Listing NGR: TL7039999912