The Stables

DARNHALL C.P. (Off) DARNHALL LANE SJ 66 SW 7/19 The Stables - - II Stable block to Darnhall Abbey. Mid C19. Red English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. Single storey with two-storey cottages and 2-storey entrance tower. Rectangular courtyard with entrance gate tower across south western angle at 45°. Coach house (northern) courtyard front: central double carriage doors with basket arch and keystone with figurehead. Shallow pedimental gable above with octagonal clock face. Octagonal bellcote to ridge with round arched openings and pilasters to corners with dome over. To left are 3 bays with a central door and to right are a door at left and 3 windows to right of it. Eastern front has 2 bays with window to corner and door to right of it with two carriage doorways to right again. This rhythm is reversed at the projecting wing to the left which joins with the gatetower which has a round-arched gateway with ashlar springers and three arched lancets to the first floor. Range of 3 cottages adjoining this on the side facing the coach house with wedge lintels to doors and windows and stone sills and hipped dormers.

Listing NGR: SJ6341963275