Stables And Coachhouse, With Wall And Mounting-Block Attached

RABY WITH KEVERSTONE RABY PARK NZ 1222 15/87 Stables and coach 14/9/66 house, with wall and mounting-block attached

GV II*

Stables and coach house; now partly converted to restaurant. Probably third quarter C18 by J. Carr. Colourwashed render with painted ashlar dressings and plinth; roof graduated Lakeland slates with ashlar chimneys. Rubble wall. 2-storey, 5-bay coach house and 2-storey, 2-bay pavilions linked by one-storey, 8-bay stables; 17 bays in all.

Coach house has 5 high entrances in arcade with impost band and voussoirs; boarded double doors under semicircular ventilation panels; first-floor band; 5 square windows above with projecting stone sills, plain stone surrounds and arch-headed glazing bars. Similar treatment to pavilions with large, partly slatted and partly glazed ground-floor windows in place of arcades. One-storey ranges have similar partly-glazed openings, and 6- and 9-panel doors with 4-pane overlights, in architraves with bracketed cornices, in second bay from each end; eaves band continuous with first-floor band of pavilions and coach house. Roofs hipped over 2-storey blocks, with banded ashlar chimneys rising from side eaves. Returns of pavilions each have door under bracketed hood, and partly-cantilevered L-plan steps, with simple wrought-iron balustrade, to 6-panel first-floor doors in plain stone surrounds.

Interior of right one-storey stable block has ramped stall partitions, with hay racks in rear arcade over mangers.

Rubble wall with round coping curves from right return to Riding School (q.v.).

2-stepped mounting block of colourwashed stone to left of central block.

Listing NGR: NZ1290222043