Stewart Park Depot

MIDDLESBROUGH STEWART PARK, NZ 51 NW (5116) Marton. 4/73 Stewart Park Depot. 2.7.76 - II Stable block with lodges, dated 1864 on east lodge. Now used as parks department depot. Red brick with blue brick and sandstone bands and dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Large U-plan range with east and west lodges flanking entrance to courtyard. High Victorian Gothic style. One storey. West lodge: 6-bay south front with projecting gabled 2-bay centre; entered from courtyard. 4-light windows with Caernarvon-headed lower lights, segment-headed upper lights and hollow-chamfered surrounds and mullions; mid-C20 casements. 3-light mullioned attic window in gable has segment-headed lights. Painted battered sills. Tablet with raised monogram, above windows in centre. Arch-braced collared bargeboards, with arch-braced hammerbeams and turned finials. Steeply-pitched roof has bands of fishcale slates, partly-renewed transverse ridge stacks and early C20 raking dormers. Similar east lodge has mid-C20 garage doors in 2 left bays, tablet dated 1864 in centre and original gabled roof dormers with similar bargeboards. Central tall wood lantern has cusped bell openings with shaped louvres under gablets with similar bargeboards; and pyramidal spire with ball finial and weather vane. Courtyard elevations partly obscured by mid-C20 lean-to sheds. 13-bay north stable range has slightly-projecting gabled 3-bay centre, with Caernarvon-headed doorway under segment-headed overlight, flanked by 4-light windows of which only segment-headed upper lights are visible. 3-light mullioned window with segment-headed lights in gable. Bolckow arms and crest between floors. Similar bargeboards. Similar dooways in 3rd and 11th bays, flanked by similar 2-light windows, under round openings with patterned radial hit-and-miss, in segment-headed recesses. Flanked by buttresses. Windows in 4th and 5th bays have hit-and-miss under casements. All openings have hollow-chamfered surrounds. Similar paired dormers over 3rd and 11th bays. East stable range has similar details and 2 dormers. 8-bay west coach-house range has segmental arcade with renewed boarded doors and similar paired windows. 4th bay blind. Off-centre stack with chamfered plinth, clasping pilasters, pilaster strips and chamfered cap. Outer faces of stable block have similar detailing. Former stable block to Marton Hall, demolished 1960. Mid C20 sheds in courtyard, and stables and bothies to north and east are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ5183916376