Description

STOKE CLIMSLAND
SX 37 SE
8/185 Pendragon House and
- attached garden walls

GV II

Rectory, now residential home for the elderly. Mid-to late C18 extended c.1820-30
with minor later additions and alterations. Regularly coursed and dressed slate-
stone alternating with granite bands; granite quoin strips to front; rendered
slate-stone to C19 additions to rear. Hipped slate roofs. Original 7-bay house
extended by double-span range to east in C19. 2 storeys with chamfered plinth,
granite floor band and painted wooden modillion eaves cornice to C18 part.
7-bay front: glazing bar sashes to first floor with wedged voussoirs and projecting
granite keystones, 2 to right dummies; infilled windows to left and right of
centre. Ground floor has 4-paned sashes in similar openings to those above
to 2 outer bays, those to right, with bottom glazing bar removed. Central C19
glazed door, possibly in position of former window. Rendered integral lateral
stacks to back wall. Right return has mid-C19 canted bay window to ground floor
with tripartite sash over. One-bay linking range with one blind window on each
floor and pointed outline of former conservatory visible attaches to rear range.
This has 4 glazing bar sashes to first floor. 15-panel glazing bar sashes
(extending to ground) below except lower right which is blind. Rendered ridge
stack immediately to right of third window from left. East wall has wide, pointed
chamfered granite arch with broach stops to jambs, probably C17 and not in situ.
Flat-roofed C19 porch to north in angle with main range has moulded entablature
and round-headed outer arch; inner half-glazed double doors with rectangular
overlight. Garden wall projecting from rear range immediately to right of left
window on south side makes 2 right-angled turns and has chamfered pointed granite
arch, single-stepped on east side. Second wall projecting from east side of
rear range incorporates several outbuildings, is buttressed and has infilled
opening on north side. Interior. Mid-C18 top-lit open-well staircase has ramped
handrail circular newels and turned baluster. Moulded plaster cornices to ground
and first-floor rooms of C18 part, panelled doors and window shutters. Early
C19 fireplaces, many with cast-iron grates, some of hour-glass type.

Listing NGR: SX3603274323

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515134

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