Description

STAINTON AND STAINTON WAY, NZ 41 SE (4913) THORNTON south side (off). 5/122 Stainton Grange and 23.6.66 garden walls. - II* Farmhouse, early/mid C18, with late C19 rear extensions. Contemporary left garden wall, and late C20 right wall. Brick with sandstone dressings. Clay pantile roof with stone ridge and gable copings. Rendered end stacks. L-plan. 3 storeys, 5 bays with slightly-projecting pedimented one-bay centre. 2 steps up to central renewed panelled door, in Roman Doric doorcase with segmental pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars and moulded sills, under gauged-brick flat arches. Panelled shutters to ground-floor windows. Middle first-floor window flanked by later smaller casement windows. 6-pane 2nd-floor windows. Plinth, bands between floors, chamfered quoins, and rendered parapet with moulded copings. Stepped garden walls with stone copings adjoin left and right. Right return shows 3-window wing with similar windows and renewed door up 3 steps. Large 24-pane horizontal sash window on ground floor. End stack. Rear shows central pent staircase wing with Venetian window, and 2-storey hip-roofed extension. INTERIOR: entrance hall has open-well staircase, with shaped tread ends, column-on-vase balusters with spiral turning and square knops, moulded handrail ramped at ends and scrolled at bottom onto column newel and curtail step. Dogleg back stair with similar but smaller balusters and closed string. Ground-floor left room has modillion ceiling cornice, eared architrave fireplace surround with scrolled foliage-ornamented pulvinated frieze and egg-and-dart cornice. Similar eared and shouldered panel on chimney above. Right room has altered fireplace under similar panel on panelled pilasters. Moulded ceiling cornice above deep frieze enriched with garlands of fruit and flowers. Similar cornices and fireplace surrounds on first floor, and painted wood panelling. Panelled doors and reveals in wood architraves throughout. Panelled window shutters and window seats on ground and first floors. Wellfield House adjoining rear too much altered to be of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4904013736

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