Stratton House

PARK LANE 656-1/28/2430 (West side) No.16 Stratton House (Formerly Listed as: PARK LANE Stratton House) 05/08/75

GV II

Detached house, now home for elderly. c1868. Probably designed by James Wilson. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof hipped to right with wide bracketed cornices to moulded stacks to returns. PLAN: Double depth plan with large C20 rear and right wings. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, three-window range. Stone eaves cornice and band with brackets flanking windows over raised surrounds and paired brackets to quoins. Six/six-pane sash windows to first floor, that to left, on projecting forward facing open pedimented gabled range, has moulded archivolt to pierced stone fanlight above window and pierced parapet to stone balcony on stone brackets below. To ground floor of this projecting range tripartite French window opening onto raised platform with simple iron railings. Ranges to centre and right have single storey further projection with similar pierced parapet and paired brackets to cornice that forms balcony to windows above. To centre, balustraded steps lead up to C20 door and plain fanlight under moulded archivolt and keystone rising from pilasters, to right parapet follows canted bay with French windows to front. Left return has single storey hip-roofed projection to right and full height canted bay to centre. Rear and right have C20 additions. INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7370565542