Stanwix House

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NY4057SW CHURCH STREET, Stanwix 671-1/4/96 (South side) 13/11/72 Stanwix House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET, Stanwix Stanwix House (Old People's Home))

GV II

House, now part of college. Early C19 for Richard Lowry, attorney. Flemish bond brickwork with light headers, on chamfered plinth (dressings of calciferous sandstone partly painted) with V-jointed quoins and sill band. Hipped graduated greenslate roof; rear C20 tiles; gable brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 symmetrical bays of double span; with central passage; lower 3-bay right extension. Central panelled door and radial fanlight in prostyle Doric porch. Flanking wooden canted bay windows with glazing bars are an insertion. Sash windows above with glazing bars in brick reveals and flat brick arches. Extension was probably for servants or stables, now with glazed doors and sash windows. Further stair projection on right return is a C20 addition. INTERIOR: panelled doors in fluted architraves; moulded plaster ceiling cornices; pilastered alcove in principal ground floor room. Hall has fluted pilaster arches with panelled soffits. Left stair has simple squared balusters and moulded mahogany handrail. Some fireplaces have fluted surrounds; some panelled shutters. Details of brickwork suggests the rear span is contemporary with the front. Previous list description suggests a date of c1794 but there is no evidence to substantiate this. Built on the site of Stanwix Roman Fort. The original entrance to the drive is on Brampton Road, and the house faces onto that road, but now entered from Church Street.

Listing NGR: NY4017557116