Stable Range And Adjoining Stableyard Gateway Approximately 20 Metres South West Of Whitgift Hall

SE 82 SW TWIN RIVERS MAIN STREET (south side) Whitgift 1/40 Stable range and adjoining stableyard gateway approximately 20 metres south-west of Whitgift Hall

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Stable range and adjoining stableyard gateway. 1819 for Coulman family. Red-brown brick with front of stock brick in Flemish bond with white lime pointing. Slate roof to central section, corrugated asbestos roofs to side ranges. Gateway of red stock brick with ashlar dressings. Rectangular on plan, with gateway adjoining north-west corner. Slightly advanced 2-storey, central single bay flanked by single-storey, 4-bay wings. Central bay has half-glazed 6-panelled door (4 panes over 2 fielded panels) in reveal and architrave. Side ranges have single 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves to bays 2 and 8, flanked by single windows to outer bays and pairs of windows to inner bays, the windows with 6-pane sashes above slatted wooden ventilators in flush wooden architraves with stone sills. Both doors and windows beneath rubbed-brick flat arches. Central section has blocked first-floor oculus in rubbed-brick surround, low hipped roof with flat central section (probably for former cupola or dovecote) surmounted by elaborate wrought-iron weather-vane with compass points and ball finial. South side and interior not available for inspection. Forms south side of stableyard west of Whitgift Hall (qv), contemporary with the coach- house/stable/granary range to the north (qv). Gateway adjoining north-west angle has central carriage entrance between square piers flanked by coped walls ramped down each side to lower piers and pedestrian gateways. Piers have moulded caps with low pyramidal tops. C19 wooden barred gate with diagonal struts to right pedestrian entrance; central entrance and left entrances have C20 gates. Left side adjoins stable/granary/carriage-house range to west of Whitgift Hall (qv). Previous list records a date of 1819 on the weather-vane. See Item 1/38 for additional historical details. Stable range used as a piggery and in disrepair at time of resurvey (April 1987). Adjoining farmbuildings to south are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE8164322781