Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491229

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas