Language Laboratory And Adjacent Gate Piers

The building is a former coach house, saddle room, byre, hay-loft, and hen house of Elvet Hill House, now serving as a language laboratory. It was constructed in 1868 for the Fogg-Elliott family. The structure is made of coursed squared sandstone, featuring an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has stone gable copings. It is designed in an L-shape and consists of one storey with four bays, along with a lower one-storey two-bay extension. The building has chamfered surrounds to four top-hung casements that include glazing bars. The steeply-pitched roof displays a fishscale pattern and has sloped gable coping on moulded kneelers. The right return gable features pigeon holes and shelves set in a two-centred arch beneath a drip mould. At the rear, there is a cantilevered external stone stair leading to the loft. A small right extension includes two top-hung casements in chamfered surrounds flanking a blind cross-slit. Adjacent to the two-bay section are two tall square sandstone gate piers with plinths and coved coping, along with a similar pier at the right end of the building.