Description

TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH STETCHWORTH PARK

6/166 Stetchworth House

II

Small country house. Built by Richard Eaton, c.1786, altered 1870.
Stuccoed brick, slated roofs. Three storeys with basements, symmetrical
double pile plan. Parapet shaped to side stacks and pedimented to
north-east elevation. Deep moulded cornice, band at first floor and
plinth. Five 'bays', central three 'bays' slightly project. Five
second floor and first floor recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows.
Four eighteen-paned hung sash windows at ground floor. Original
doorway and first floor window in shallow round arched recess, partly
masked by large late C19 closed porch with corner pilasters and
entablature surmounted by urns. Three, panelled double doors, half-
glazed entrance doors. Low wings with balustraded parapet to right
and left hand, rebuilt from original service wing and conservatory.
Interior (not seen 1983) has geometric planned open string staircase,
six panelled doors with moulded architraves and over doors with
enriched friezes and cornices. C18 panelling to ground floor rooms.
Drawing room chimney piece white panelled, dining room chimney piece
Ionic grey marble. Stable block and house alterations attributed to
Sir Roger Palmer.
RCHM (Cambs notes) 1953.
VCH, Vol. VI, p174.

Listing NGR: TL6416859092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603958

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)