Stable Block, Stable House And Coach House, 200 Metres South East Of Skelton Castle

A stable block, stable house, and coach house dating from around 1800, designed by Sir John Soane. The stable block was altered and raised in 1897 to incorporate a house. The buildings are constructed from dressed sandstone with tooled margins, and have Lakeland slate roofs. The stable block is arranged in a "U" shape, with a house at the west end of the south wing and the coach house on the west side of the courtyard.

The south courtyard frontage of the stables features a two-storey, five-bay centre block. It has a central, wide, full-height, segment-headed opening with voussoirs, impost bands, and is flanked by shallow, round-headed recesses containing Diocletian windows with hopper lights and glazing bars. Sashes with glazing bars and stone sills are on the first floor. Behind the central opening is a segment-headed carriage opening, situated under a wide, segment-headed fixed-light window with glazing bars, flanked by six-panelled doors above large overlights fitted with glazing bars. Round-headed doorways with six-panelled doors and fanlights with glazing bars are set within the reveals of the main opening. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the top. The hipped roof has three ornamental metal ventilation cowls on its east slope. Two-bay wings extend to the right and left, connected to projecting north and south wings, each with six bays. These wings are single-storey and also incorporate round-headed openings and recesses with boarded doors, fanlights and Diocletian windows. Hipped roofs feature similar ventilation cowls. The three westernmost bays of the south wing have been raised to create a two-storey house.

The coach house is two storeys high with three bays on each of its east and west sides. It also has full-height round-headed openings with voussoirs and impost bands. Boarded double doors are set into the east side, and are blocked on the west side. The tympana on the sides are partially blocked and contain louvred, segment-headed openings on the first floor. A hipped roof tops the coach house, with corniced external end stacks and pediments above the eaves. Single-storey, one-bay wings to the left and right of the coach house have round-headed openings containing boarded doors, fanlights with glazing bars and sash windows with glazing bars. An ornamental metal lantern sits atop a gatepier attached to the south face of the north wing of the stables. The courtyard is paved with chamfered bricks. A single-storey extension to the east side of the stables and outbuildings to the south and east are not considered to be of particular interest.