Stoke Court
STOKE COURT, STOKE COURT DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124354
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke Court
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE COURT, STOKE COURT DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124354
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOKE COURT, STOKE COURT DRIVE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE COURT, STOKE COURT DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Poges
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 97698 84187
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/02/2013
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STOKE POGES
STOKE COURT DRIVE
Stoke Court
II
1845 and 1873 Elizabethan style mansion. Stucco over brick with stone details
and plain tile roofs. Modern Tudor style clustered brick stacks. Two storey
and attic. Stucco is lined as ashlar. Main front with central projecting
3 storey porch with 3-light mullion and transom attic window, armorial plaque
at 1st floor and ground floor doorcase with arched doorway with attached
columns and cornice over. Two gabled half dormers each side. Mullion and
transom windows to main floors, 3-light and 2-light to left of porch, 2-light,
single light and 3-light to right of porch. Main garden front is also stuccoed
with two large flat topped 3 sided bays projecting, one of two storeys the
other of three within same height. Three window centre between bays with
1st floor windows rising into dormer gables. One window range beyond each
bay, also with dormer gable. Mullion and transom windows with small panes,
all renewed. To right of entrance front is a C19 ashlar extension with
tall 3-sided bay window, gable adjoining over 2 window range and 2 window
range beyond. Mullion and transom windows. A modern addition extends beyond.
The house was gutted by fire in 1979 and was rebuilt within the shell.
Built on the site of West End Cottage where Thomas Gray's mother and aunt
lived and where between 1742 and 1750 Gray wrote parts of the 'ELEGY WRITTEN IN
A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD' and the 'ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE'.
Listing NGR: SU9769884187
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44218
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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