Description

TR 03 NW MERSHAM FLOOD STREET
(east side)

6/103 Stonegreen
13.10.52 Hall

GV II*

House. C17 or earlier, clad and extended 1704 and 1712 for the Mantell
family. Timber framed core in part tile hung to rear, extended with
red and blue brick on ragstone base, with plain tiled roof. L-shaped
extensions to core. Garden front: (1712) 2 storeys and attic on plinth
with modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with stacks to left and to
right and 3 hipped dormers with original leaded lights. Regular
fenestration of 5 glazing bar sashes on 1st floor and 4 on ground
floor with flying cornices. Additional central glazing bar sash
replacing door, with Doric pilasters and pediment. Large stair window
and glazing bar sashes on left return. Right return: present entrance
front (1704). Two cross windows on each floor to return of garden front.
Lower two storey and attic range on ragstone plinth with plat band and
brick corbelled course to modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with
3 hipped dormers and stacks to centre and to end right. Five cross
windows on 1st floor, and 4 on ground floor (that to centre left
rebuilt). Door of 6 raised and fielded panels to left with 3 side
panels in wide fluted pilastered doorcase with triglyph frieze and
cornice. Leaden water downpipes of various C18 dates brought from
elsewhere. Interior: black and white marble entrance hall and staircase
hall, with heavily keyed and moulded round arched doorways, that to
passage with heavy entablature blocks. Dog-leg and landing staircase
with barley-sugar twist balusters and landing rails and moulded and
ramped handrail, with raised and fielded panelling. Dated on brick
in staircase hall: A. Cox 1704. Dated on right return of garden front:
E M 1712. Rear range with fine C17/C16 door and chamfered ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: TR0469938350

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556643

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)