Stourton Club With East Side Of Spread Eagle Yard

The Stourton Club, located on the south side of High Street in Stourton with Gasper, is a village hall that has been converted into a restaurant and features a picturesque wall and towers, which now serve as a shop and kitchen. Built in the early 19th century for Richard Colt Hoare, the building was repurposed from stables in 1919 as a memorial for the First World War.

Constructed from random rubble stone with dressed limestone and topped with tile or Welsh slate roofs, the club is situated on the north side of the yard, positioned at right angles to the east wall, resembling a castle curtain wall. The east side of the yard features a high wall with a battlemented parapet and a wide pointed archway to the left, flanked by square corner towers. These towers have pointed two-light casements on the ground floor and blind windows on the first floor, also adorned with battlemented parapets. The right return of the north tower includes a larger wooden oriel window that was added around 1920.

At the rear, facing the courtyard, there is a lean-to range of offices and kitchens that were converted in the 20th century. The Stourton Club has a moulded Tudor-arched planked door to the left, with a relief-carved inscription above that commemorates the building as a war memorial, along with two tablets listing the names of the fallen. The rear courtyard features Flemish bond brickwork, leaded casements, and a three-light mullioned and transomed casement to the left, with double glazed doors to the right.