Listed buildings in Stonehouse - Stroud District Council

SO 8005 SE STONEHOUSE HIGH STREET
(east side)
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No 19 (Apsley House)
and No 19a
House with attached former malt house, later dairy, now op. Midlate
C17; mid C18 refronting to No 19; late C18 exte osin to malt
house; C19 alterations. Random rubble and ashlar mestone; red
brick; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Two- orey with attic
house (No 19); T-plan; 3-storey malt house No 19a) projects
forward towards road. West front: 3-wit dow 12-pane sash
fenestration, all with keyed beaded archit aves except that over
doorway to left with recessed 'cavetto moulding; 6-panel door with
flat timber porch hood. Front gable to ma-it house has parapet with
finial and pigeon holes with moulded p7t'ches in apex. Middle floor
doorway with timber lintel and glazed door reached up straight
flight of concrete and stone steps;/ top floor window over with
coloured glass. Indications in stonework of lower gable height.
South side of malt house is brick7on stone plinth with stone quoins
indicating much shorter original b(9ding detached from house;
older part has 3-light casement /" ground and 2-light to upper
floors, both chamfered sto/,re muViJioned with hoods; 2-light to
attic without hood. Addi ion to east has segmental arched middle
floor casement; possibly eablier part to right having mixed
fenestration including m,4ddl Floor 2-light with hood. North side:
2-light casements to a ar wall of malt house, also with
indications of alter ions a to south. Moulded parapet gables to
ends of house with chimneys having paired shafts and moulded caps;
k 5 2 single-light casements with hoodmoulds to upper floor and attic,
2-light to groupd floor at south end. Casements with timber
lintels to rear/wing, masonry being coursed rubble from early C19
rebuilding. Gothic intersecting glazing bars to ground floor
window in eas/t gable end.
Interior: late C17 staircase with turned balusters, moulded
handrails a/d strings. Beams with pointed stepped stops., Malt
house attic has concrete floor.
(N.M. Herlert, 'Stonehouse' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 267-289)
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