Stables, Now School Laundry, To North-West Of Windlestone Hall

NZ 22 NE WINDLESTONE A 689 (South side) Windlestone Park

9/91 (inset) Stables, now school laundry, to north-west of Windlestone Hall GV II

Stables, now school laundry. Probably early C19. Render with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof graduated Lakeland slates with tiled ridge and ashlar chimneys. L-plan with outbuilding and short wall forming 2 other sides of courtyard, entered at rear.

Front to garden: 2 storeys, 5 bays; sashes with fine glazing bars in plain stone surrounds under label moulds on ground floor, except in central bay; roundels above in plain stone surrounds; hipped roof with central corniced ridge chimney and louvred ridge ventilators. Right return to wide lane, leading to service wing of Windlestone Hall (q.v.) has door and sash window under label moulds, and 2 roundels above; long one-storey building blank except for early C20 window; hipped roof. 2-storey left return in same style as main range, partly obscured by vegetation, and with tall late C20 external chimney stack.

Rear entrance formed by short wall ending in square rusticated pier with pyramidal coping; similar rustication forms corner of outbuilding at other side of entrance.

Listing NGR: NZ2633128723