Stowe House
STOWE HOUSE, NETHERSTOWE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187731
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Stowe House
- Statutory Address:
- STOWE HOUSE, NETHERSTOWE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187731
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Stowe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOWE HOUSE, NETHERSTOWE
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:
- STOWE HOUSE, NETHERSTOWE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK1230710213
Details
LICHFIELD
SK11SW NETHERSTOWE, Stowe
1094-1/1/248 (East side)
06/03/70 Stowe House
GV II*
House, now training centre. 1750s with early-mid C19 and C20
additions. For Elizabeth Aston. Brick with ashlar dressings;
hipped slate roof with brick stacks. L-plan with later wings.
Early Georgian style.
3 storeys and basement; symmetrical 5-window range; central
forward break. Moulded stone coping to brick basement and top
modillioned timber cornice and stone-coped brick parapet;
quoins. Entrance has Ionic aedicule with pulvinated frieze to
entablature and segmental pediment, paired 3-fielded-panel
doors. Basement windows have rubbed brick flat arches over
6-pane horned sashes; upper windows have sills and architraves
to 2/4-pane sashes, 4-pane sashes to 2nd floor; central
windows have eared architraves, that to 1st floor with scrolls
to shoulders.
Left return has lean-to outshut with 4/8-pane sash and 12-pane
sash; 1950s additions. Rear has wing projecting to right with
canted end and cornice; end has architraved windows, tall
ground-floor windows have 8-pane sashes, 1st-floor windows
have 2/4-pane sashes.
Rear has segmental-headed entrance with 2-light leaded window
over segmental hood and fanlight over half-glazed door, tall
sashed stair window above. Hipped wing to right with bowed
window to ground floor, 1st floor window with Venetian sash
and 2nd floor sashed Diocletian window; smaller gabled wing to
left. Large early C20 wing to left has brick and ashlar
pilasters and modillioned cornice; hipped tile roof. Windows
with rubbed brick flat arches and 12-pane and 8-pane horned
sashes.
INTERIOR: hall has richly moulded cornice; open well stair has
cut string with moulded tread ends, twisted-column-on-vase
balusters, twisted column newels and moulded ramped and
wreathed handrail, upper flight has baluster-on-vase
balusters; eared architraves to 6-fielded-panel doors. Room to
left has rich ceiling; panelled dado; 2 niches with enriched
spandrels flank fireplace, one with door, one with glazed
cupboard door; friezes to doorcases. Room to right has
cornice. Room to rear left has beams with guilloche moulding;
room to right wing has rich foliate cornice.
The home from 1770-1 of Thomas Day, eccentric author of
'Sandford and Merton', and also for some time of Maria
Edgeworth. A fine mid Georgian house retaining many good
interior features.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade MW:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: 71; The Lichfield Guides (leaflets):
Nicholls G: Literary Lichfield: Lichfield: 1981-).
Listing NGR: SK1230710213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990)
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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