Stable Buildings Around East Side Of Courtyard To East Of Scarisbrick Hall, At Sd 392 126

SCARISBRICK SD 31 SE 8/17 Stable buildings around east side of courtyard to east of Scarisbrick Hall, at SD 392 126 26.4.1963 GV II

Stable buildings and screen wall, now partly store and partly incorporated with school buildings. Probably partly c.1840 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and partly 1860s by Edward Welby Pugin; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, steeply pitched stone slate roofs. L-shaped, with large gatehouse, screen wall and corner tower on the south side, returned wall with an arched gateway (blocked) and another gatehouse on the east side. In Flemish or French Gothic style. Square south gatehouse, of 2 stages, the upper standing within the battlements of the lower, has triangular-headed archway, round tourelles at the corners and a triangular tourelle rising from a corbel over the apex of the arch, finished with a spirelet and linked at the back to the upper stage of the tower, which has a steeply pitched mansard roof. Embattled screen wall to the right, joined to a large circular corner tower which has an over sailing octagonal upper stage and steeply-pitched octagonal roof. The returned part of the screen wall has a large blocked depressed-arch gateway surmounted by a bird, and at the further (north) end a square gatehouse with crow-stepped gables. (Alterations to this area include a free standing 2-storey classroom block occupying most of the yard, and a range of single-storey classrooms attached to the inner side of the east wall).

Listing NGR: SD3924712630