Coach-House And Stable Range Approximately 150 Metres East Of Cowick Hall

SNAITH AND COWICK SNAITH ROAD SE 62 SE (south side, off) East Cowick 3/87 Coach-house and stable range approximately 150 metres east of Cowick Hall GV II Coach-house and stables, now offices. 1804, probably by Joseph Bonomi, for John Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe and Baron of Cowick; later C19-C20 alterations and stucco to stable wings; alterations and additions of c1985. Coach-house of red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone and limestone ashlar dressings; stable wings stuccoed, with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Coach-house in Classical style. plan: 4-room central entrance-hall coach- house range, with adjoining stable range to rear and projecting stable wings enclosing yard to west; unsympathetic C20 range linking wings across front of yard. Coach-house: 2 storeys with attic to central bay, flanked by 2- storey 2-bay wings and single-storey 7-bay stable ranges. Coach-house, west front: plinth, tripartite central bay with recessed panel containing 6-panel door and 6-pane overlight in recessed architrave beneath rubbed-brick cambered arch, flanked by single narrow recessed panels. Pairs of former carriage entrances to each side with C20 windows. All ground-floor openings with thin sandstone ashlar lintels. Moulded first-floor sill string course. Central bay with 6-pane casement beneath cambered arch in recessed round- headed panel with ashlar archivolt and impost band, and small casement in weatherboarded tympanum, flanked by pairs of ashlar pilasters carrying broken pediment with acroteria, and clockface in tympanum. Side bays have similar sashes, ashlar cornice and blocking course. Stable wings, interior facing courtyard: plinth; recessed inner bays each have a round-headed recessed panel with impost band, a 9-pane casement below and a semicircular window above with glazing bars, and a continuation of ashlar cornice from adjoining coach-house; outer bays have rectangular recessed panels containing 12-pane casements with sills and segmental arches. West fronts of stable wings have recessed central panels with 6-pane casements in ashlar architraves flanked by narrow single panels. Coped parapet, roof hipped to front. South side of stable range has angle pilaster to left, three 12-pane casements in ashlar architraves. Interior of coach-house contains hall with cantilevered ashlar staircase with plain wrought-iron balustrade, pair of round-headed doors to granary lofts with radial fanlights over fielded panels.

Listing NGR: SE6583021153