Stoke Gabriel House

Stoke Gabriel House is a large detached house built in 1798 for Rear Admiral Thomas Hicks, and extended and remodelled in 1899. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a slate hipped roof, featuring bracketed eaves. A band runs along the first-floor cill level. The house is three storeys high and has a 3:1:3 bay arrangement. It incorporates late 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars and margin panes. The central bay projects forward, topped by a late 19th-century pediment and a porch with pilasters, a round-headed doorway, and side lights. A late 18th-century inner doorway has panelled double doors and a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. A two-storey wing was added to the left in the late 19th century. Inside, the hall has a modillion cornice and a cantilevered geometric staircase with a moulded soffit and a moulded, wreathed handrail, and a column newel. The house contains a late 18th-century watercolour by William Payne depicting the house as it was then, when it was only three bays wide.