Stockenden

Stockenden is a house dating from the 15th century, with additions from the 16th and early 17th centuries. The house is timber framed and built on a rubble stone plinth. The front is brick-infilled, with tile hanging above, galleted stone to the rear, and tile hanging above. It has plain tiled roofs with a ridge stack at the end of the left-hand wing, and impressive 17th-century diagonally placed end stacks to the main range. The house is L-shaped, originally consisting of a 15th-century hall house on the left wing, with the main range to the right. The front of the house features a projecting wing to the left, with a brick dentil band above the ground floor. This wing has two casement windows on the first floor. A leaded casement window sits to the left. A six-panel door is positioned to the right of the re-entrant angle, covered by a fanlight with intersecting tracery. A flat porch hood with dentilled brackets and fluted pilaster strips is above the door. The rear of the house was formerly the entrance front. It has three storeys and a basement with an attic, and a 20th-century dormer roof. There is a casement window to the left on the second floor, three casements (one leaded) on the first floor, and four casements across the ground floor. One window to the right is in a blocked former entrance, under a Tudor stone arch dated "AN DO.1604". Inside, there is an open fireplace with a moulded and embattled chimney beam. Upstairs, against the west wall, is a large truss with a tie beam and an octagonal crown post; one brace to the tie beam remains, the other having been replaced by a 16th-century doorway. The building demonstrates group value and is of significant architectural and historical merit.