Stourmouth House

Stourmouth House is a house with an early 18th-century front and a 16th-century rear wing. The main front is of plum brick with red brick dressings, while the rear wing is timber-framed with brick infill and slate cladding. The front has a slated roof with a plain tiled rear slope. A rear wing has a slate roof. The house is two storeys and an attic, set on a plinth and features a plat band with a moulded modillion eaves cornice. The central projecting block has brick quoins and a pediment. The roof is hipped with two flat-roofed dormers and stacks to the left, right, and centre rear.

The fenestration is regular, with a pointed-headed glazing bar sash window in the pediment, five glazing bar sashes, the central three within a pedimented black surround, and two wooden casements at each end on the first floor. The ground floor has six windows with gauged heads. A central door features eight raised and fielded panels, a segmental pediment on fluted pilasters, a moulded entablature raised to the centre, and glazing. A glazed conservatory is situated on the left return.

The interior entrance hall features dado panelling and elliptical-headed doorways with pilasters and raised entablature blocks. Ceiling joists have tongued chamfers, and there is a flagstone floor. The staircase has a wreathed, moulded, and ramped handrail on turned balusters, square base knops, and fluted principals, rising on an open string with carved brackets. Ramped raised and fielded dado panelling is present. The staircase is of an open-well plan. There is some moulded dado and cornice work in other downstairs rooms. Upstairs rooms are characterised by raised and fielded panelling, with the rear walls displaying stepped panelling that appears jettied. Exposed timbers from the rear timber-framed wing are visible in these rooms. A cellar is present, featuring brick arched niches and a barrel-vaulted ceiling.

The rear wing exhibits an exposed timber frame, likely dating to the 16th or early 17th century, with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A 17th-century newel stair is present with wavy splat balusters. Re-used timber from an older wing has been incorporated into the roof structure, including clasped purlins. Several names are carved into the bricks near the main entrance, notably those of Thomas Dowker and -- Harrison, dated 1754.