COURT HOUSE, STOKE ST MARY
Grade : II List Entry Date : 25 February 1955.
Manor house, now 2 dwellings. Probably late C16 in origin, enlarged east early C18, cross wing
added and altered early-mid C19, west gable end partly rebuilt and extended at rear C20.
Squared and coursed blue lias, Ham stone dressings, slate roof hipped right, coped verges,
stone stacks left gable end between first and second bays left and to right of cross wing,
C20 brick stack at rear on gable end. Plan: Stoke Court possibly open hall with service wing
right of screens passage and full height porch, cross wing addition abutting right, beyond
3-bay addition (Court House). Two storeys, 2:1:1:3 bays, hollow chamfered stone mullions to
Stoke Court, left pair of full height canted oriel windows divided into 4-light casements on
each floor, full height gabled porch, set back stepped buttresses rising to first floor,
3-light window above entrance, right projecting gabled wing, 4-light mullioned and transomed
window with pair of similar 2-light windows below, all under hoodmoulds, right hand 3 bays.
Court House distinguished by pilaster quoin strips, added dentil cornice and flat string course
band, cruciform windows with moulded surrounds and voussoirs, entered on right return; main
entrance Tudor arch head doorway under square head moulded half glazed double doors. Right
return of 2 bay cross wing, Tudor arch head stairlight window, many paned with marginal glazing
bars under hoodmould. Right return gable end rebuilt to incorporate double garage. Rear
elevation, early-mid C19 fenestration, Tudor arch head windows with marginal glazing bars.
Interior not seen, a full description of the building is not possible without internal
inspection. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Source: TDBC Online Listed Buildings - Stoke St. Mary.
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Link to TDBC Listed Dwellings of Stoke St Mary.
