Stockwell Manor

Heritage listing

Details BRADNINCH STOCKWELL SS 90 SE 7/46 Stockwell Manor - 6.4.66 - II* Large detached house. C15 or early C16 (but with an earlier window incorporated into the fabric in the C16 or C17), extensively remodelled in the C19 and early C20. Coursed volcanic trap rubble, some cob, partly plastered, under hipped and gabled-end thatched roofs. Formerly a 3-room, cross-passage plan house, with a large 2-room lower end wing, the junction of these 2 elements altered by C20 remodelling. Big external lateral stacks heat Hall and lower end, and a former end stack (now axial) heats parlour; the higher end was extended in the C19 and another end stack erected; lower end wing with 2 end stacks; all stacks (excluding a late C20 boiler stack) with brick shafts. 2 storeys throughout. Exterior: main range: front: the hall and parlour were refenestrated in the mid C19 to form an almost symmetrical 3-window range, the upper windows under large gables, those to either side tripartite hornless sashes, 6:12:6; the middle window with a 12-pane hornless sash. One tripartite hornless sash window (4:12:4) to either side of porch with canopy, dentilled, on console brackets, with pilasters and panelled reveals. The right-hand end of this main range has been extended further in the C19, with two 4-light casement windows to first floor, one to ground, with a French window. Rear: 2 dominant external lateral stacks, that to the lower end with 3 little inglenook windows, under hipped thatched roof; that to the Hall with 3 set-offs and a small side-window. Two 2-light casement windows between: large 2-light casement window with glazing bars and transom (probably early C20) to stairwell. The C19 extension with a round-headed doorway under broken pediment and architraves, two 1st floor 2-light windows, 2 be

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.