Stoneleigh House

Stoneleigh House is a town house, likely dating from the late 17th century, with significant remodelling in the early 19th century. It has undergone alterations in the mid-18th and 20th centuries. The house is stuccoed with a slate roof and rendered end stacks. It has a T-plan and features a six-window façade.

A fine early 19th-century door is set within a columned Portland stone porch located to the left of centre. The door is divided horizontally into three panels, with the top panel glazed, a reeded lower panel, and a large central panel framing a circular boss or shield bearing concentric mouldings and a lion’s head knocker. The porch’s columns have fluted lower halves and an unusual order featuring slender necks with Greek key patterns and Greek Doric capitals on plain inverted caps. Pilasters match the innermost columns; the porch has a moulded cornice and a pedimented parapet with central paterae and antefixes. A carriageway is located to the far right, accessed via panelled, double-leaf doors, flanked by tripartite sash windows with moulded, rendered surrounds and console brackets beneath their sills. Moulded cornices complete the windows. The first floor has a 12-pane sash window above the door with a similar surround; 12-pane sashes are located to either side with plain sills. A moulded cornice runs along the top of the façade, followed by an attic storey with alternating incised rectangular panels and paterae. Boxed eaves are broken by a pair of straight-headed dormer windows with 16-pane sashes. A two-storey wing extends to the rear, with a hipped roof covered in plain tiles and 2- and 3-light casement windows.

The interior features a vestibule passage with a panelled dado and fluted Doric pilasters. An archway at the end of the passage leads to the staircase, with a moulded surround featuring a round trefoiled head. The front range includes stop-chamfered spine beams. A corner fireplace is located in the ground floor’s left room. A mid-18th century open-well staircase has column-on-vase balusters. A stone cellar is also present.