Building record 1054903000 - Clock Tower and Stable Block at Stockgrove Park

Grade II. Clock tower and stable block, now dwellings. 1928-1938 by W Curtis Green for F M Kroyer-Kielberg. Red brick with limestone dressings and pantile roofs. Clock tower is in a light-hearted classical style and has 6 stages. Bottom stage has tall carriage area with round-arched head and key block, flanked by brick pilasters with stone plinths, capitals and entablature with brick frieze. Brick spur walls to angles ending in piers with stone plinths and large obelisk finials. Walls are stone-coped and swept up to join 1st floor storey band of tower. 2-light casement window to 1st stage above archway with pantiled hood on brackets; 2-light casements to 2nd and 3rd stages, smaller casements to next stage in wide stone surround with blind fanlight above window, blank side panels and flanking pilasters with attached obelisk finials. Fanlight has key block directly below large octagonal stone clock face recessed in square panel. Bold moulded stone cornice and pyramidal roof on low brick base with tall pagoda-style open metal finial bearing weather-vane. Cantilevered canted balconies project from sides of penultimate stage with wrought-iron balu- strades. Low stone-coped walls connect tower to former stable and garage blocks enclosing stable yard. 2-storey stable and garage wings flank yard and have hipped pantile roof; now converted into dwellings. Taller, 2-storey outer corner pavilions with single storey wings flanking archway to stable court with round-arched head and key block. Pavilions and wings have hipped pantile roofs and 2-light casement windows. (Country Life, Sept 30 1939, p 337.) (B1).