Stable Block To North West Of Craster Tower

NU 21 NE CRASTER CRASTER TOWER

6/43 Stable block to north-west of Craster Tower GV II

Stable block and attached wall. Late C18 incorporating earlier fabric. Front wall squared stone except for rubble in centre part; other elevations heavily- cemented rubble; cut sandstone dressings. Pantile roofs except for Welsh slates on north side of south range. L-plan.

Front (east) elevation 3 gabled bays. Left bay has pair of elliptical arches, the other bays single segmental arches, all holding boarded double doors. Quatrefoil panels in gables. To far left a short attached wall, with rebated segmental arch, joins garden wall (q.v.). Left return shows 2 boarded doors and stable door, in chamfered 4-centred surrounds, four 4-pane sashes, two 12- pane sashes and a 9-pane fixed window; 2 low slatted windows directly beneath eaves. Roof hipped to left.

Rear elevation; north and centre bays have hipped roofs; south range shows large raking buttress with blocked stone-surround doorway to left and boarded door with 6-pane overlight, under timber lintel, to right.

Listing NGR: NU2507719611