The Stone Tower

Heritage listing

Details CLAVERDON SP26NW MANOR LANE 1457-1/3/42 (East side) 06/02/52 The Stone Tower (Formerly Listed as: CLAVERDON Stone Building) II House. Tower of c1593 probably for Thomas Spencer, with later additions and alterations including C17 stacks and wing to north-east of 1967 by George Pace also incorporating outbuildings, and with later alterations. MATERIALS: tower of regular coursed lias limestone, roughly squared, lower courses of ashlar, with asphalt roof, the interior rooms are lined with brick in irregular English garden wall bond; wing of limestone ashlar, brick and concrete with red tile roofs, otherwise roof concealed. EXTERIOR: 3-storey tower, with raised stair-turret to west corner. Chamfered plinth. Quoins to angles. Moulded string course at second-floor level around tower; remains of first-floor string course on north-west and south-west sides. Entrance to south-west side: thick plank door with nail-heads within doorway with chamfered jambs and 4-centred arch, flanked by 2 projecting piers which carry a moulded 4-centred arch under a square head to form a shallow porch; above arch the string course forms a moulded dripstone, and above this the face slopes back in a series of 11 small moulded off-sets to a tall, shallower projection which finishes with an ogee gable-head reaching almost to the second-floor string-course. The face of the left pier has toothings for connecting building (see below). To left an inserted window with chamfered jambs; 2 further single-light windows to upper stage with lead cames. To north-west side are windows to stairway: 8 single-light windows in chamfered and quoined surrounds stepped, the lower window interrupts the lower-stage band; the fifth window interrupts the second-floor band, all with lead cames. Also to this side a proj

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.