| Description | This stable block was built in the early 18th century, with added angle pavilions attributed to James Paine. It is built of magnesian limestone ashlar, in Classical style, and has slate roofs. There is a rectangular main range, linked by short screen walls to gabled pavilions, with a receding wing to the rear of that on the left. The main range is two storeys high and is of nine bays that are symmetrical. In the centre there is a tetrastyle Tuscan portico with an oeil de boeuf in the pediment. Within the portico there is a tall doorway with rusticated surround and a triple keystone with a pediment over it. There is a semicircular tympanum over the whole, and a coved niche either side. The building has a hipped roof, from the centre of which rises a square clock tower bearing a rotunda surmounted by a ball finial and weathervane. The pavilions are of two higher storeys and are each of three bays.
To the rear of the left pavilion is a receding wing of two elements; the first is a two storey three bay cottage, and the second was built as a gabled cross wing in Classical style, with two storeys and three bays. |