Clopton House and Attached Former Stable Block, Walls and Gate Piers Stratford-upon-Avon, England

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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP25NW CLOPTON ROAD, Clopton 604-1/2/295 Clopton House and attached former 25/10/51 stable block, walls and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: CLOPTON Clopton House)

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Country house and attached coach house, now flats, with walls and piers. c1600 nucleus with north porch and bay window; 1665-70 south and east ranges; north and west wings, mostly c1840 restoration or rebuild; 1843 coachhouse. Brick, at one time painted or stuccoed, with ashlar and stucco dressings; hipped tile roof with brick stacks, including 2 panelled cross-axial stacks. PLAN: quadrangular plan. Restoration style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; south facade of 7 bays with projecting 3-bay pedimented centre. Stucco plinth and platt band; ashlar quoins and cornice to central brick platt band; top wood modillion cornice and pediment. Entrance has architrave, rusticated flat arch and segmental pediment with the Clopton arms mounted on the crest; paired half-glazed doors. Windows to centre have ashlar surrounds with moulded jambs and 9/6-pane sashes, narrow return windows with similar brick surrounds and 2 windows with 12-pane sashes to tympanum of pediment flanking the arms of Sir Edward Weston (father-in-law to Sir John Clopton); windows to ends have stucco surrounds, formerly brick, and 12-pane sashes, 9/6-pane sashes to 1st floor; 2 gabled C20 dormers with 9-pane windows. Right return similar; 7-bay range; entrance to left of centre has brick and timber porch with embossed lead panels and paired doors with clad with embossed lead and panel over with raised lettering: FHH/ INSTAURAVIT/ 1904. Bowed projection to right end has cornice and C20 pebbledash; windows with bowed 6-pane margin-light sashes. Windows with stucco surrounds and 3 dormers with moulded pediments. North elevation has 2-storey porch with gable to each side, rubble with timber-framed 1st floor, round-headed entrance with panelled pilasters and archivolt with flanking terms, return 2-light windows and 1st-floor cross-casements; polygonal bay window to right end has pilasters, entablature and panelled parapet, 5 single-chamfered cross-mullioned windows; small-paned glazing; other windows with small-paned casements with pointed lights. 2-bay return of east range to left end; right end gable with barge-boards. West elevation has small-paned casements and 12-pane horned sashes; 3 lateral stacks. Courtyard has 2 stair turrets, one with pyramidal roof and one gabled; 2-storey canted bay window to south. INTERIOR: south range has central ground-floor room with c1600 panelling, fireplace with moulded 4-centred arch, and C19 turned piers and overmantel incorporating some C16 elements; window has much early C19 armorial stained glass recording marriages of Clopton, Warde, Hodgson and Walker families; some earlier quarries of flowers etc; plaster ceiling with cornices; floorboards in big square panels; room to right has overmantel pilasters set with majolica. East range has open well stair with panelled pilasters with C20 lamps and turned balusters; moulded plaster ceiling has Clopton arms on displayed-eagle crest in laurel wreath; 1st floor room has late C17 bolection-moulded panelling with dado rail and bolection-moulded fireplace with panelled pilasters; rich plaster entablature with swags. Staircases flanking courtyard, one spiral with some turned balusters, one with splat balusters. Attic room was a chapel, probably originally for C16 recusant Catholics, recorded as having wall painting of biblical texts in heart-shaped frame and late C17 altar rail with heavy turned balusters. Coachhouse has gabled south elevation with 11 round arches, some with door pegs, Warde arms and date: 1843 to gable; attached by short wall to house, and short wall to west has panelled brick gatepier to end, with ashlar cornice and ball finial. West elevation has 2 gabled wings flanking large segmental-headed openings with late C20 glazing, other C20 openings; clock turr