Coach House/Stables At Sandtoft Hall

SE 70 NW BELTON SANDTOFT

6/26 Coach-house/stables at Sandtoft Hall (formerly listed as 1.3.67 Sandtoft Grove Stables)

GV II

Coach-house/stable/granary. Mid C18 with later C18 - early C19 alterations to openings and addition to east. Probably for Popplewell estate. Red brick, pebbledashed and colour-washed to main range. Pantile roofs. Rectangular on plan: pair of stable-rooms flanked by single coach-rooms, single-room addition with outshut to east. 2 storeys with attic, with single-storey additions. North front: 4 first-floor openings; pair of flush-panelled doors and pair of part-glazed ventilation hatches (4 panes above wooden slats), all beneath dummy painted radial fanlights, flanked by single basket-arched coach-house entrances, that to right with double board doors with wrought-iron strap hinges, that to left with recessed blocking and inserted flush-panelled door beneath glazed radial fanlight. Series of wrought-iron tie-bar ends at first-floor level. First floor: part-glazed hatches (4 panes above board doors) beneath dummy radial fanlights, with wrought-iron tie-bar ends between. Single 2-light window or hatch above, with lintel at eaves level. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. Single attic hatches with board doors to gable ends. Left gable end has wrought-iron letters "R P". Single-storey addition to right has single window similar in style to those of main range, with 4 panes above 3 lights beneath radial fanlight; outshut to left has board door beneath parapet. Rear of main range has single ground-floor slit vent, single first-floor hatch, with another above beneath lintel at eaves level; similar brick eaves cornice. Interior. Chamfered spine beams, exposed joists; not fully investigated. The Popplewell family of Temple Belwood owned Sandtoft in the C18; the initials on the gable may be those of Richard Popplewell. W Read, History of the Isle of Axholme, 1858, p 366; photographs in NMR.

Listing NGR: SE7411808060