Stanley Park
STANLEY PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340627
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stanley Park
- Statutory Address:
- STANLEY PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340627
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stanley Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANLEY PARK
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:
- STANLEY PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83049 03863
Details
SO 8203-8303 KING'S STANLEY SELSLEY WEST
14/50 Stanley Park
GV II
Formerly large country house, now flats. Dated 1584; extensively rebuilt 1850 and enlarged 1870 for S.S. Marling. Ashlar limestone; roughcast render; ashlar chimneys; flat lead and plain tile roofs. Tudor gothic revival style. Irregular plan incorporating C16 house, mostly 3-storey with cellar; ballroom wing on north side. South front: symmetrical with central projecting tower having Tudor-arched porch within base and canted 2-storey oriel over. Doorway inscribed 'MIHI VOBISQUE' . Tower has low square spire above machicolated eaves; small timber lucarne on each side. Four-window fenestration to elevation, all mullioned and transomed with hoodmoulds; canted 2-storey bays on outer positions with crenellated parapets. Octagonal corner buttresses with pinnacles and continuous crenellated parapet. East side: elevation to left is as to front. At centre parapet-gabled end of C16 house with scattered fenestration: 3-light recessed chamfered basement window with hoodmould and datestone 1584. C19 fenestration to ground and middle floors; original attic 2-light has hoodmould and leaded casement. C16 wing extends to right with north-facing parapet- gabled end, extensively rebuilt with large mullioned and transomed canted oriel with datestone SSM 1850. North side: central high- roomed wing projects forward with tall mullioned and transomed windows, octagonal buttresses with pinnacles and crenellated parapet. Mullioned and transomed central bay with crow-stepped gable has projecting balcony on large supporting brackets with realistic foliage carving; datestone SSM 1870. Octagonal stair turret wth conical coped roof on west side of wing. West side: mixed and scattered fenestration including part of original west end of C16 house with 2-light casement dated 1584. Tall square tower with crenellated parapet and tall round-arched windows. Interior: some features may be C18, retained during rebuilding. Fine staircase with 2 barleysugar balusters per tread looks C18; extensive panelling may also be earlier than 1850. Staircase hall altered in conversion but C19 painted glass skylight survives. Forms part of group with No 23 (Stanley Park Lodge) etc (q.v.), and provides part of High Victorian silhouette to this part of Selsley West. (N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 242- 257)
Listing NGR: SO8304603871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131924
- 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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