Stockton is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 20 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. It includes the villages of Stockton and Norton, and is otherwise mainly rural. In the parish is Apley Park, a country estate that contains a country house, a model farm, and other listed structures. Most of the other listed buildings are houses, the earliest of which are timber framed, and the other listed buildings include a church, its churchyard walls and rectory, a barn, a school, and village stocks and a whipping post.
The church incorporates some earlier material, but the oldest substantial surviving part is the lower stages of the tower, the rest of the church being rebuilt in 1858–59. It is built in sandstone, and has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave, north and south transepts, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a west doorway with a pointed arch, a four-light west window, and an embattledparapet with gargoyles and the bases of corner pinnacles. In the north wall of the chancel is a Norman window.[2][3]
The houses are timber framed with painted brick infill, and thatched roof. There is one storey and an attic, and four bays. The doorways have plain surrounds, and the windows are casements.[4]
Two cottages combined into one, the building is timber framed with painted brick infill and a tile roof. There is one storey and an attic, three casement windows, a doorway with a plain surround, and two gableddormers.[5]
The house is partly timber framed and partly in brick, and has a roof of cedar shingle. There is one storey and an attic, and three bays. The windows are casements, and there is a gableddormer.[6]
The rectory is to the south of the church, and is in red brick with modillioneaves and a tile roof. There are three storeys, five bays, and flanking two-storey wings. In the centre is a pedimented porch, the windows are sashes, and on the garden front is a bay window.[2][9]
The walls are on the east and south sides of the churchyard of St Chad's Church. They are in sandstone, and are surmounted by crocketedfinials formerly on the church parapets.[12]
Originally an orangery, it was converted into a cottage in the 19th century. It is in red brick with stone dressings, a parapet and a slate roof. There are two storeys and a symmetrical three-bay front, the middle bay projecting under a mouldedcornice and pediment with urns. The windows are sashes, and at the rear is a gabled wing and outshuts.[14][15]
A pair of estate cottages in red brick with hipped tile roofs. They have a single storey, two bays each, outshuts at the rear, and detached outbuildings. The windows are casements with simple hood moulds, and the outbuildings include wash houses, stores and pig sties.[19]
The house is rendered with a tile roof, two storeys and three bays. On the front is an ornamental cast iron porch, and the doorway has a moulded surround, side lights, and a shallow segmental fanlight. The windows are sashes with hood moulds, and the gable ends have ornamental bargeboards.[20]
A red brick house with dentilledeaves and a tile roof. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, consisting of a three-bay main range and a projecting gabled wing on the left. The middle bay projects and contains a doorway with a semicircular head, a mouldedstuccoed surround, and a radial fanlight. The windows are sashes with cambered heads, and the gables have ornamental bargeboards.[21]
The school is in buff brick with dressings in blue brick, and a tile roof with diaper decoration in yellow tiles, pierced ridge tiles, and stone copedgables. It is in High Victorian style. There is a T-shaped plan, with a front range of two classrooms with two porches, a clock tower, and a rear wing. Between the porches are two buttresses, and the porches have round-arched entrances. At the east end are diagonal buttresses, and a five-light window over which is a segmental arch with a chequered pattern in the tympanum. The tower has clock faces in oculi and a saddleback roof, and most of the windows have diamond glazing.[2][22]
A model farm with buildings in red brick, dressings in blue brick, and slate roofs. The buildings consist of a barn, a boiler house, two covered cattle yards, and to the east is a single-storey manager's house. The south front is symmetrical and has a projecting central wing with three bays and two storeys. In the centre is a gable with an oculus, above which is a square bellcote.[14][23]
The village stocks and whipping post are at a junction in the centre of the village, and are surrounded by an enclosure consisting of four wooden posts and chains.[25]
