Description

SP 75 SE
5/151

STOKE BRUERNE
Stoke Gap Lodge

(Formerly listed as Stoke Gap Lodge including farm buildings)

01/12/51

GV
II
Farmhouse. c.1840. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roofs, stone internal stacks. Double-depth plan. Two storey, three window range. Central double-leaf, part-glazed doors in stone porch with unfluted Doric columns supporting entablature with triglyphs to frieze and deep moulded cornice.

Twelve-pane sash windows with stone lintels and keyblocks. Plinth, storey band and band below deep projecting eaves. Lower symmetrical two storey wings attached to rear angles of main block have similar windows, plinth and storey band. Interior has open well staircase with steeply ramped handrail and carved tread ends. Stone-flagged floor to garden hall, and some original chimneypieces.

With farm buildings (q.v.) one of a number of model farms built for the fourth Duke of Grafton 1839-44.

(Grafton papers deposited in Northamptonshire Record Office)

Listing NGR: SP7516050143

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26652764

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)