Clock Tower And Former Stable Block At Stockgrove Park

A clock tower and former stable block, dating from 1928 to 1938 and designed by W Curtis Green for F M Kroyer-Kielberg, now converted into dwellings. The building is constructed of red brick with limestone dressings and pantile roofs. The clock tower is in a light-hearted classical style, rising in six stages. The lower stage features a tall carriage area with a round-arched head and key block, flanked by brick pilasters with stone plinths, capitals, and an entablature with a brick frieze. Brick spur walls extend from the angles, terminating in piers with stone plinths and large obelisk finials. Stone coping rises to meet the first-floor storey band of the tower. A two-light casement window sits above the archway, covered by a pantiled hood on brackets. Further two-light casements are present on the second and third stages, with smaller casements on the next stage, contained within a wide stone surround incorporating a blind fanlight above the window, with blank side panels and flanking pilasters topped with obelisk finials. The fanlight is capped by a key block directly below a large octagonal stone clock face recessed in a square panel. A bold moulded stone cornice supports a pyramidal roof on a low brick base, topped by a tall, pagoda-style open metal finial with a weather vane. Cantilevered balconies project from the sides of the penultimate stage, featuring wrought-iron balustrades. Low stone-coped walls connect the tower to the former stable and garage blocks, enclosing the stable yard. The stable and garage wings, now dwellings, have hipped pantile roofs. The taller outer corner pavilions, two stories in height, are flanked by single-story wings leading to an archway into the stable court, mirroring the round-arched head and key block of the carriage area. These pavilions and wings also have hipped pantile roofs and two-light casement windows.