Forecourt Walls And Garden Room To Stowey Court

ST13NE NETHER STOWEY CP

11/62 Forecourt walls and garden room to Stowey Court (formerly listed as forecourt and garden walls and outbuilding at NE angle of forecourt under General) 29.3.63

GV II

Forecourt walls and garden room to Stowey Court. Some C16 features, probably much rebuilt C17 and later. Random blue lias rubble; enclosing grassed forecourt. Walls to North and South sides approximately 50 metres long, that to East 40 metres long; North wall with a chamfered 4-centred arch door opening in a dressed stone surround; 2 semi-circular head door openings, rough hewn voussoirs. Wall to East with a single pointed arch door opening in a moulded surround, plank door, moulded coping to this section; wall to South with 2 broad carriageways in moulded 4-centred stone surrounds with stopped labels, that at the Western end blocked and pierced by a C17 door opening with a semi-circular head and emphasised keystone and imposts; this section of wall again with moulded coping. At the North East corner of the forecourt, a 2 storey garden room, probably C18, rebuilt 1974; rubble frontage with brick quoins and a parapet with coping, corrugated plastic pent roof; 2 tall segmental-headed window openings to ground floor in brick surrounds, C20 casements; 2 brick-lined semi-circular head coved niches to first floor and central blocked circular opening. Central semi-circular head door opening to ground floor, brick surround, paired C20 glazed doors. North wall with an inner wall of lower height to its rear appears to be the ground floor of a former building, raised terraced walk between the two walls supported on brick vaulting; flight of stone steps to West end. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, September 1981).

Listing NGR: ST1961039643