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

The stable buildings around the east side of the courtyard to the east of Scarisbrick Hall were likely constructed partly around 1840 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and partly in the 1860s by Edward Welby Pugin. These structures are now used partly as storage and partly incorporated into school buildings. They are built of red brick with sandstone dressings and feature steeply pitched stone slate roofs. The layout is L-shaped, including a large gatehouse, a screen wall, and a corner tower on the south side, along with a returned wall that has a blocked arched gateway and another gatehouse on the east side.

Designed in Flemish or French Gothic style, the square south gatehouse has two stages, with the upper stage set within the battlements of the lower. It features a triangular-headed archway, round tourelles at the corners, and a triangular tourelle rising from a corbel over the apex of the arch, topped with a spirelet and connected at the back to the upper stage of the tower, which has a steeply pitched mansard roof. The embattled screen wall to the right is linked to a large circular corner tower that has an over sailing octagonal upper stage and a steeply pitched octagonal roof. The returned part of the screen wall includes a large blocked depressed-arch gateway topped by a bird, and at the further (north) end, there is a square gatehouse with crow-stepped gables. Notable alterations include a free-standing two-storey classroom block occupying most of the yard and a range of single-storey classrooms attached to the inner side of the east wall.