Wall, Gateway, Carriage-House And Stable Attached

This is a third-quarter 18th-century yard wall with a gateway, carriage house, and stable attached to Staindrop Hall. The construction is primarily sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, although the rear elevation is rendered sandstone rubble with brick and ashlar dressings. The roof is of graduated Lakeland slate with an ashlar chimney.

The wall has a boarded pedestrian entrance to the left of a high segmental-headed vehicle arch with voussoirs. It features renewed boarded double doors and a flat stone coping. The carriage house and stable are two storeys and have three high, hit-and-miss loft openings with projecting stone sills, topped by a hipped roof with a chimney at the eaves. The south-facing elevation includes a boarded door and 2-pane overlight to the left, a partly-glazed opening, and two segmental-headed coach entrances with boarded doors. Three loft openings are present, with the two left boarded, and the right a horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars and projecting stone sills. The return side has stone steps, the ends of which are shaped to create a continuous stepped curve, leading to a first-floor boarded door.

Inside, a quadrant hay store is located to the left of the first door, and there are circular hay racks for four stalls, two having mangers.

The stable block’s style reflects designs similar to those at Raby Castle, attributed to J. Paine. It provides balance to the adjacent, single-story wing of Staindrop Hall.