Stoke Hall Cottages; The Rookery England, UK

Listed Building Description

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SK 27 NW PARISH OF STOKE 1/24 12.7.67 The Rookery and No 2 Stoke Hall Cottages (formerly listed as GV Stabling at the toll) II

Former stable block, now two dwellings. Mid-c18. Coursed squared gritstone on shallow plain plinth with ashlar dressings, quoins, coped gables to rear, hipped stone slate roof with ashlar sidewall stacks. 'U' plan, arranged around three sides of a courtyard. Five bays, with two and three storey towers slightly advanced from main range of two storeys. Glaz-ing bar sashes in first and fifth bays, doorways to second and fourth bays and a wide central bay with C20 garage doors. A band course to first floor with five blind recessed semi-circular arches which form the heads to the door and window bays below. Above, a broad band course from which rise the towers, each with a glazing bar frame with a flush stone surround, below a moulded cornice and pyramidal roofs. Linking the towers a parapet balustrade with clusters of turned stone balusters between sections of masonry parapet and balusters below tower windows. Doorways have plain stone surrounds and as six panelled door with shallow overlights.

Listing NGR: SK2388676139