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STONE

SJ90SW STATION ROAD, Stone 651-1/4/61 (South West side) 27/07/72 No.15 Stone Town Council Offices (Formerly Listed as: STATION ROAD No.15 (Stone Rural District Offices))

GV II

Council offices for town and district councils and private office. c1810. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick cross-axial stack. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 2 storeys; 5-window range, projecting right end. Plaster plinth, 1st floor sill band and modillioned brick eaves. Round-headed entrance has doorcase with fluted pilasters blocks with paterae and open pediment, fanlight with radial glazing bars over 8-panel door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes, but window to left of entrance and 2 windows to 1st floor are blind. Small wing to right of single storey with attic, ground floor tripartite sashes, 1st floor 4-pane sashes in flat-topped half-dormers. Rear has canted bays flanking round-headed entrance. INTERIOR: open-well stair to rear with stick balusters; some doorcases and cornices to ground floor rooms. The family home of John Masefield O.M., 1878-1967, poet laureate 1930-67.

Listing NGR: SJ9006834028

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