Stables And Carriage House To Sledmere House

SLEDMERE MAIN STREET SE 9264-9364 (south-east side, off)

4/44 Stables and carriage house to Sledmere House 20.9.66

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Stables and carriage house, now garages, workshops and tea rooms. Probably late C18 with later additions and alterations. Yellow brick in Flemish bond to front facade otherwise reddish-pink brick in English garden wall bond, with ashlar and red brick dressings and Welsh slate roof. Square on plan around central courtyard. Neoclassical. 2 storeys, 4 bays with central pedimented entrance to inner courtyard. Ashlar plinth. Central round- arched opening to full height under portico with engaged Tuscan pilasters and columns, 2 to each side, frieze and moulded pediment containing clock. To either side (alike) are 2 round-arched recesses with part-glazed double garage doors and to first floor are 6-pane windows with ashlar sills. Moulded ashlar cornice. Hipped roof. Central cupola, with bell,of Tuscan columns, frieze, dome and weather-vane. Within, the courtyard has mainly round-arched stable openings with plank doors, overlights with glazing bars, round arches of red gauged brick, central keystones and ashlar imposts. First floor has casement windows and pitching doors within elliptically arched opening. Stepped and cogged eaves. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 346.

Listing NGR: SE9300064750