Gatepiers, Stenton House

1783, 2-storey manse, extended and given arcaded

facade, 1820. Pink sandstone ashlar frontage, rubble

elsewhere; base and band courses and cornice.

NW ELEVATION: 1820. 5-bay. Mid 19th century gabled

porch adjoined to penultimate bay to left, round-arched

window to front door on SW return; gablet skews and

ball finials. Regular windows to remaining bays at

ground, and in 1st floor, round-arched arcade of panels,

with window partly intercepted by porch made blind.

Outer right bay with rubble single storey, slightly

recessed lean-to with coped and segmental parapet.

"Dairy" incised above ground floor window of outer left bay.

SE ELEVATION: irregular. 4 bays of original house to

left, with piend-roofed, rectangular-plan stair block,

probably 1820, set in re-entrant angle with advanced

extension to right; 3 bays to left with regular windows

to each floor. 1 ground floor window and 1 central 1st

floor window to piend-roofed extension. Single storey

bay to outer left, detailed as above.

NE ELEVATION: 3 irregular openings, 1820.

SW ELEVATION: lean-to addition at ground, given modern

conservatory windows; 1st floor window to left and

central attic window in gablehead.

12-pane and 4-pane glazing patterns to sash and case

windows. Purple slates. Ashlar stacks.

STABLE COURTS: simple rectangular enclosure with coped

rubble boundary walls and stugged square ashlar

gatepiers, sited to SE of house. Alterations at N angle,

2 stable doors retained, and pigsty enclosures adjoined to

SE. Piend-roofed SE side, with 3 stable doors, 1 cart

door and windows. Cement cobbled court.

INTERIOR: timber stalls, wrought-iron hay basket and

stone flagging retained in SE row.

RETAINING WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble retaining walls;

square gatepiers to N.