Description

SO 8104 KING'S STANLEY RYEFORD

10/22 Nos 1 to 3 (consec) Stanley House

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Former large country house, now 3 houses. Dated 1593; mid and late C18 alterations; early C19 addition. Begun by Richard Clutterbuck; completed by Elizabeth, his wife. Roughcast render with limestone ashlar dressings; roughcast to ashlar and brick chimneys; Welsh slate and concrete tile roofs. Long 2-storey range with attic; 2 south wings with later addition between; 3- storey block at east end. Front: 2 parapet-gabled mid C18 wings with 2-window 12-pane sash fenestration to ground and upper floors with plain keyed architraves; single round-arched attic casement to each gable with imposts and plain keyed architraves; leaded casements. Datestone to right wing mounted above upper floor sashes, presumably reset from elsewhere: 'RC EC 1593'. Central infill with lower pitched gable is early C19 with 3 tall upper floor 15-pane sashes; blocked round-arched attic opening. Ground floor altered in C20. Two-window sash fenestration to block to right with plain parapet: 12-pane to ground and middle floors, 9-pane to upper floor all with plain architraves, keyed to ground and middle floors. West end: parapet-gabled end of main range to left with off-centre projecting chimney stack; single 2-light cavetto mullioned attic casement with hood has one leaded light. Off-centre upper floor sash."Lateral chimney stack to side of wing to right. East end: rebuilt early C19 with 2 low-pitched gables, left with brick chimney, right retaining ashlar chimney with moulded cap. Single-window fenestration between gables, C19 sashes. Central C20 recessed doorway. Rear: 2 gables. Mixed sash fenestration including many mid C18 eighteen-pane sashes with thick glazing bars. Earlier openings in gables: 2-light in left, small single-light in right. Interior altered in conversion to 3 houses. Central infill addition conceals former winter garden with round-arched arcading dating from mid-late C18; large upper floor room above appears early C19 addition with later fireplace and cornice. No 2 contains former main open well staircase with bobbin balusters and matching newels. Many sashes retain panelled shutters. Formerly the main house of the Clutterbuck family, owners of Stanley Mill for C17 and much of C18. (N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 242- 257; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8112804164

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