Coach-House/Stable/Granary Range And Adjoining Screen Wall Approximately 30 Metres West Of Whitgift Hall

Coach-house, stable, granary range and adjoining screen wall, approximately 30 metres west of Whitgift Hall

A coach-house and stable/granary range incorporating two houses, with an adjoining screen wall, built around 1819 for the Coulman family. The building incorporates an earlier garden wall on its north and west sides. It is constructed of red brick, with the south and east fronts faced in stock brick laid in Flemish bond with white lime pointing. The roofs are covered in Westmorland slate.

The main range is L-shaped in plan. The north range contains three rooms with a central carriage house, tack-room, stable and house at the east end. The west range has seven rooms with a house at the south end. The screen wall extends across the east side of the yard from the north range to the west wing wall of Whitgift Hall. The building is two storeys throughout.

The south side of the west range has two first-floor windows and a central 6-fielded-panel door with moulded lintel and geometric overlight in the reveal, flanked by 12-pane sashes and unequal 9-pane first-floor sashes. The east side has eight first-floor openings: five entrances (three with 6-fielded-panel doors, two with doors missing) with ventilator grill overlights beneath rubbed-brick flat arches, and eight ground-floor windows (four with 6-pane sashes over slatted ventilators, one with ventilator above a glazed section, and three with glazing missing). A round-headed opening at the far right leads into a lobby with a stable door and window. The first floor has four openings with slatted ventilators, one with a 2-light window, the remainder empty.

The south side of the north range has three first-floor windows. A central carriage entrance contains a pair of damaged 6-fielded-panel doors beneath a rubbed-brick basket arch, flanked to the left by a 6-fielded-panel door with moulded lintel and plain overlight, and to the right by a partly-blocked window with a small inserted panelled door. The first floor has a slatted ventilator to the central opening and inserted 2-light windows either side. All doors, windows and hatches are beneath rubbed-brick flat arches with stone sills. A fragmentary moulded wooden eaves cornice runs throughout. The roof is hipped with a pair of truncated ridge stacks to the north range.

The west side of the west range has an angle pilaster to the right, a pair of segmental-headed ground-floor openings with board doors flanked by small breathers, and ten first-floor segmental-headed openings (three with slatted ventilators, three with vertical glazing bars and fragmentary glazing, three empty).

The north side of the north range has a 6-fielded-panel door and plain overlight in an architrave beneath a segmental arch to the left, and a 12-pane sash to the right in a flush wooden architrave beneath a segmental arch. Above are a pair of first-floor unequal 9-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves, with three slatted ventilators and a board door to the right, all beneath segmental arches. A short single-storey stone-coped wall adjoins the western forecourt to a pier north of Whitgift Hall and contains a board door to a privy beneath a segmental arch. A stone-coped screen wall at right angles encloses the east side of the stableyard and contains a single 6-fielded-panel door beneath a segmental arch.

Internally, the southern room of the west range and the tack room in the north range contain fielded-panelled cupboard doors. A damaged sandstone staircase is located in the west range. Hinged shutters survive behind ventilator overlights, though the interior was not fully investigated at the time of survey.

This is a well-built range, contemporary with the gateway and stable range to the south, and dated to 1819. At the time of resurvey in April 1987, the building was empty and partly derelict.