Stourton Club With East Side Of Spread Eagle Yard

STOURTON WITH GASPER HIGH STREET ST 73 SE (south side) 6/132 Stourton Club with east side of Spread Eagle yard GV II Village hall, now restaurant,and picturesque wall and towers, now shop and kitchen. Early C19, for Richard Colt Hoare, village hall converted from stables, 1919, as a First World War memorial. Random rubble stone, dressed limestone, tile or Welsh slate roofs. Club on north side of yard, at right angles to east wall, in style of castle curtain wall. East side of yard comprises high wall with battlemented parapet and one wide pointed archway to left, flanking square corner towers with pointed 2-light casements to ground floor and blind windows to first, also with battlemented parapets, right return of north tower has larger wooden oriel window, added c1920. Rear, facing courtyard has lean-to range of offices, kitchens, converted C20. Stourton Club has moulded Tudor-arched planked door to left, relief-carved inscription over records building of Club as war memorial, two tablets with names of dead. Rear facing courtyard is Flemish bond brick, leaded casement and 3-light mullioned and transomed casement to left, double glazed doors to right. (Stourhead Annals)

Listing NGR: ST7767134012

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