Potting Shed And Garages West Of Auckland Castle

These ancillary ranges, located west of Auckland Castle, likely date to the 14th and 16th centuries, with further development in the 18th and 19th centuries. The east range is a potting shed, while the north range serves as a garage and garden shed. The ranges were originally part of a prebendal college complex and have undergone alterations, including conversion of a north range into a carriage house.

The east range has a painted plinth and rendered rubble walls with ashlar dressings to the right return gable. It features a pronounced offset at door head level. The left bay, adjacent to Westcott Lodge, has a wooden door and a tall, multi-paned window. The right return gable displays a blocked early 16th-century window with moulded spandrels and a possible blocked tall opening. A tall round projection on the right may be an oven flue. Inside, on the inner face of the front wall is a medieval pointed arch head just above ground level, along with a stone basin in a partition wall. A 19th-century fire beam is also present in the end gable.

The north range is two storeys high with five bays, incorporating a pent-roofed shed with two wide, fixed, multi-paned lights and a section supported by four early 19th-century cast-iron columns, enclosed by rendered walls with two-light casements. The lower first storey above the shed has three small square windows with Yorkshire sliding sashes. Within the shed, the wall of the garage block reveals a mixture of rubble and squared masonry obscured by patchy mortar. It exhibits a wide, pointed medieval arch with two mouldings, the outer one wider, now blocked with rubble. A 17th-century door, set against the shed, has cock's head hinges and a stile-and-rail frame. The interior of this range reveals a late medieval stone arch, with a moulded elliptical head, adjacent to the east range and a pointed arch in the north wall.