Stockers House seen from the bridge
Built for the City of London Corporation as a residence for its Collector of the Coal Dues on the Grand Junction Canal. Stock brick. Shallow hipped slate roof. 3 bays. Tall 2 storey front with steps up to central entrance with a panelled door and rectangular fanlight all in a rebated reveal. Large glazing bar sashes in reveals. Slightly cambered heads to all openings. Deep boxed eaves. Extruded end stacks with offsets and oversailing caps flanked by sashes on both storeys. Basement on right return and to rear with French windows and a conservatory and glazing bar sashes to upper storeys. 1 storey outbuildings to right and to rear left. Interior not inspected. (M. Bawtree 'The London Coal Duties and Their Boundary Marks', Rickmansworth Historian, Autumn 1964 and 'Stockers House and the London Coal Duties Boundary Marks', Rickmansworth Historian, #10, 1966, Pevsner 1977).
Rickmansworth in IR
Stockers House seen from the bridge
Built for the City of London Corporation as a residence for its Collector of the Coal Dues on the Grand Junction Canal. Stock brick. Shallow hipped slate roof. 3 bays. Tall 2 storey front with steps up to central entrance with a panelled door and rectangular fanlight all in a rebated reveal. Large glazing bar sashes in reveals. Slightly cambered heads to all openings. Deep boxed eaves. Extruded end stacks with offsets and oversailing caps flanked by sashes on both storeys. Basement on right return and to rear with French windows and a conservatory and glazing bar sashes to upper storeys. 1 storey outbuildings to right and to rear left. Interior not inspected. (M. Bawtree 'The London Coal Duties and Their Boundary Marks', Rickmansworth Historian, Autumn 1964 and 'Stockers House and the London Coal Duties Boundary Marks', Rickmansworth Historian, #10, 1966, Pevsner 1977).
Rickmansworth in IR