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

The stable range and adjoining stableyard gateway date from 1819, built for the Coulman family. The stable range is constructed of red-brown brick, with a front facade of stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring white lime pointing. The central section has a slate roof, while the side ranges have corrugated asbestos coverings. The gateway is of red stock brick with ashlar dressings.

The stable range is rectangular in plan, with a gateway positioned at the north-west corner. It features a slightly advanced, two-storey central bay with a single bay flanked by single-storey, four-bay wings. The central bay has a half-glazed, six-panelled door (four panes over two fielded panels) within a reveal and architrave. The side wings have single six-fielded-panel doors in architraves to bays two and eight, flanked by single windows to the outer bays and pairs of windows to the inner bays. These windows have six-pane sashes, with slatted wooden ventilators set within flush wooden architraves and stone sills. All doors and windows are placed beneath rubbed-brick flat arches. A blocked first-floor oculus, within a rubbed-brick surround, is present in the central section. The roof is low-hipped, with a flat central section, possibly indicating the former presence of a cupola or dovecote, and topped by an elaborate wrought-iron weather-vane with compass points and a ball finial, bearing the date 1819.

The gateway adjoining the north-west angle has a central carriage entrance between square piers, flanked by coped walls that ramp down to lower piers and pedestrian gateways. The piers have moulded caps with low pyramidal tops. A 19th-century wooden gate with diagonal struts is present to the right pedestrian entrance; the central and left entrances have 20th-century gates. The left side of the range adjoins a stable, granary, and carriage-house range to the west of Whitgift Hall.

The stable range forms the south side of a stableyard to the west of Whitgift Hall and is contemporary with the coach-house/stable/granary range to the north. The interior and south side were not inspected. In 1987, the stable range was noted to have been used as a piggery and was in disrepair. Additional historical details are recorded in Item 1/38.