| Description | Stable House and Rear Gates, Warmfield cum Heath. c.1754 stables and carriage house associated with Heath Hall [PRN 13242] now converted to a house.
'Former stable block with bothies over and attached carriage houses; stables converted to house, carriage houses now garages. c.1754 altered 1984. By John Carr for John Smyth of Heath Hall remodelled as house by Francis Johnson (architect, Bridlington) for Mary Oddie, OBE. 2 storey stable block, lower single storey coach houses. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roofs. Classical style. Balanced symmetrical composition with central 5 bay U shaped stable block with low walls either side linking it to flanking coach houses. Stable block: quoins, ashlar plinth, thin ground floor sill band, wider lst floor impost and sill bands. Outer and central bays have archivolted arched recesses. Central doorway has shouldered architrave and triangular pediment, double doors with over light approached up short flight of steps. Each bay has sash windows with plain stone surrounds, rectangular with square windows to 1st floor. Outer bays, set forward, have doorways (blocked) on the inner returns. Bracketed continuous casement moulded eaves cornice. Hipped roof, outer bays with separate hips to front. Chimney less originally, now has 2 ashlar ridge stacks with cyma moulded cornice. Low c.1754 linking walls pierced by doorways with tie stone jambs, ashlar coping. Carriage houses: ashlar quoins, plinth, impost bands and archivolt arched carriage entrances, pedimented gables.
Interior: nothing of the original stables remains. Fine C18 style interior reuses many original details imported from other houses: 4 finely carved doors and the doorcase to the drawing room each having 6 raised and fielddeced panels, the mouldings carved with egg and dart decoration with beaded central channel, from Swillington Hall, c1748 attributed to Lord Burlington for the Croft family. The master bedroom has C18 wooden fireplace surround, the architrave carved with elaborate swastika design and with dentil cornice, which is reused from a house by John Carr in Manchester. All doorways have moulded architraves. Open well staircase has finely turned balusters, 2 to each riser and ramped handrail made by Hare and Ransome (York) who also did the panelled shutters to windows. The drawing room has C18 style fireplace with eared architrave and Sienna marble on black marble base blocks as used by Carr in Heath Hall, finely carved pulvinated frieze (by F. Johnson executed by Dick Reid ). The plaster cornice in this room is based on one by Carr at Fairfax House, York. An elegant interior where great attention to detail has been paid'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 14/02/1952. Date amended 27/08/1986. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1135583. Web site accessed 04/02/2014).
The former stable house, Heath Hall was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Peter Thornborrow (WYAS) c.1988. The photographic images, which include images of the building's and associated wrought iron gates and piers (SE 35576 20281), are held by WYAAS (Thornborrow, P.H. (WYAS). c.1988). |