Stancombe Park

ST 79 NW STINCHCOMBE PARK LANE 3/101 (south side)

Stancombe Park

II

Detached country house. c1840, but considerably rebuilt in 1880, following a fire. Limestone ashlar, Welsh slate low pitched hipped roof to main block, squared and dressed limestone in principal wing and attached out-buildings. Compact main block in two parts, parallel range, with three related buildings forming rectangular courtyard to west. Original entrance front, to south, two storeys, 5-windowed, sashes with bars, in reveals, and extended to plinth level at ground floor, central 6-panel door under rectangular fanlight in 4-column Doric portico approached 5 stops; return front, right, 2+3+2-windowed; including central hexagonal bay; on both these fronts plain string band at first floor, and cornice with mutules to low parapet. To left of south front, lower wing in two storeys, 2-windowed, 3-light sashes, and left of this, attached by garden wall at parapet height and with gated opening, 1-storey slate-hipped roof unit, 4-windowed, sashes with bars in plat-band, central 6-panel door in architrave. West front, main block, to courtyard, central pediment with pilasters, two storeys, 3-windowed, 3-light sashes, modern door off-centre right. Courtyard completed by one-storey detached block to west, and two storey, parallel range carriage house with wide flat elliptical opening, to north.

Interior of principal block panelled doors and linings, and divided stair, said to have come from demolished Ridge House, Wotton-under-Edge.

Listing NGR: ST7379397441