The Paddocks And The Stables

The Paddocks and The Stables is a former barn and associated farm buildings dating from 1819, as indicated by the datestone marked R 1819 C, but incorporating elements from the 16th and 17th centuries. The buildings are constructed of finely coursed rubble with sandstone dressing, while the rear is built of brick, all topped with graduated slate roofs. They form a single range aligned northwest to southeast and consist of three main elements:

1. A low, single-storeyed room, likely a former byre, which features a re-positioned datestone marked GPH 1506 on the gable wall.
2. A formerly part-storeyed barn, now entirely without floors, which was extended in 1819 but retains a datestone marked GAP 1653 in its original gable wall, now internal.
3. A single-storeyed room located to the southeast.

The principal elevation, facing the house, displays all openings from the 1819 remodelling. It includes a wide doorway flanked by single-light windows, all with hood moulds and the doorway featuring quoined jambs. The barn has a first-floor plot band and quoining, with three oculi and alternating square-headed windows on the first floor, and three similar windows along with two doorways on the ground floor, one of which has the 1819 datestone. All openings have been blocked. The rear walls have been rebuilt in brick, and there is a blocked wagon entrance to the barn flanked by large buttresses, one of which has been dismantled. The end walls have breathers in dressed surrounds, and some breathers are blocked.

Inside, the former byre has a squat king post roof with large side purlins, while the barn features a three-bay king post roof with queen struts and two sets of back purlins.