Description

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SO 79 NW
15/27

STOCKTON
Apley Park
Apley Hall

(Formerly listed as Apley Park (Secondary Modern School), STOCKTON)

29.09.51

II*
One of the most famous seats of Shropshire. The present Gothic style mansion erected circa 1812 (architect unrecorded) incorporating earlier Georgian mansion. Built of Grinshill stone with battlemented parapets, mullioned windows, oriels etc; southern front dominated by a central tower; porte cochere to the east; end facade of old C18 house masked by false chapel-like window. To the north, a symmetrical arrangement of sashes makes the earlier building easily recognizable.

Principal rooms have typical mid-C19 "Gothic" decoration; plaster groined ceilings; double staircase; marble mantlepieces brought from old Dorchester House; good C18 staircase in kitchen wing. The present Dining Room, former Chapel, probably altered circa 1870.

The park is one of the finest in the county; terrace over-looking Severn Valley; hanging woods to a great height lining steep gorge of river.

Reference, Country Life.

Listing NGR: SO7117798224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Apley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4779973

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record