Swinburne Castle And Attached Stable

Swinburne Castle and the attached stable are located in Chollerton and date from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with the stable built in the early 18th century. The building is constructed of random rubble and has a Welsh slate roof, forming an L-shape and standing two storeys high. The house section features nine bays on the first floor, with 12-pane sash windows set in 17th-century double-chamfered surrounds beneath hoodmoulds. There are visible marks of former mullion-and-transom windows. On the ground floor, there are two blocked brick tunnel vaults on the left, followed by one 8-pane sash window with thick glazing bars in a double-chamfered surround. An original surround on the right now has a slatted window. Other ground floor windows are 16-pane sashes in early 19th-century chamfered surrounds. The roof is steeply pitched, hipped on the left and gabled on the right. The rear elevation is very irregular, featuring varied sash windows, some with hoodmoulds, two first-floor doorways with hoodmoulds, and two large external stacks. The left return was part of a mid-18th-century house, made of ashlar with rusticated quoins and a 12-pane sash in a blind round arch. The right return has a two-light mullioned window in the gable.

The attached stable is a two-storey structure, marked with "T M" over a blocked central door that features a large chamfered lintel and alternating jambs. There is a similar doorway to the right and five small windows on each floor, all with heavy chamfered surrounds and holes for iron bars. The stable has a gabled roof with kneelers and flat coping, and a former two-light window on the right return now displays an elaborate coat of arms. There is a large circular pitching eye at the rear.

Inside, there is a large 18th-century stone kitchen fireplace with fragments of a 19th-century iron range and another brick fireplace from the 18th century. The rear wing contains a late 17th-century wooden dog-leg staircase and a mid-18th-century stone cantilevered staircase with plain stick balusters and a moulded handrail. The southern first-floor room features a good 18th-century staircase, while other upper floor rooms have 18th-century fireplaces, shutters, and moulded wooden window surrounds. The main part of the 18th-century house that connected this range with the orangery has been demolished.