Description

STAFFORD

SJ92SW ROWLEY AVENUE, Rowley Park
590-1/2/126 Rowley Hall
16/01/51

II

House, now hospital. c1817, by William Keen; extended c1910
and later. Ashlar with slate roofs and several ashlar stacks.
Double-depth plan. Classical style.
EXTERIOR: 2 windows; symmetrical 7-window range, including
3-window bowed centre. Platt band over ground floor; top
cornice and blocking course. Entrance has overlight and paired
half-glazed doors, similar fenestration to flanking windows,
all in bowed tetrastyle Ionic porch. Windows have 12-pane
horned sashes.
3-window left return similar, with hexastyle colonnade and
French windows with small-paned overlights. Rear similar to
front, but no porch.
Range to right of 2 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range with
2-window projecting wings. Top band and blocking course.
Central lateral stack with 1st floor panel; 12-pane horned
sashes; inserted C20 entrance; wings have windows in tall
recesses have moulded sills, aprons to ground floor windows,
panels between floors.
Further wing to right of single storey with attic; 4-window
range; top cornice and mansard roof; 2 pairs of windows with
12-pane horned sashes and end roundels; 3 pedimented half
dormers; C20 2-storey wing to right end Rears similar,
single-storey range has 2 pedimented and 2 round-headed
dormers; re-entrant conservatory with leaded glazing to upper
panes and to belvedere.
INTERIOR: round entrance hall with coved ceiling and 2 niches,
paired inner doors with overlight with decorative glazing
bars; ashlar cantilever stair with cast-iron balusters; two
1st floor fireplaces have columns and tiles, round mirrors to
overmantels, one with cream and pink tiles and Doric columns,
the other with blue tiles and Ionic columns; some low
radiators with relief decoration.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire:
London: 1974-: 250).

Listing NGR: SJ9160521913

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507557

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