Outbuildings At Winteringham Grange Stables Dovecote And Screen Wlls Approximately 30 Metres East Of Winteringham Grange Farmhouse

The outbuildings comprise stables, a dovecote, and screen walls, dating to the late 18th and 19th centuries and originally built for the Carrington Estate. Constructed of coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, they are colourwashed with traces of incised pointing designed to resemble ashlar, and have pantile roofs. The buildings are executed in a Gothick style.

The range is rectangular in plan, with screen walls set at right angles, enclosing the north side of a stackyard and adjoined to a barn to the left. The complex consists of a 15-bay arrangement, featuring a central two-storey, three-bay stable/dovecote that projects forward. This section is flanked by a single-storey, attic 4-bay stable on one side, and two-storey, single-bay screen walls projecting at the left and right ends, with further single-bay walls projecting at right angles.

The central stable/dovecote has a segmental-headed door flanked by round-headed panels containing square ventilation hatches, with three oval panels above. A brick band remains of a former first-storey wall, extending to a brick band above the gable walls, which are now ruinous. The flanking stables each possess original segmental-headed doors along with later 19th-century replacements, flanked by pointed panels – three to the left stable and two to the right, accompanied by four oval panels above. A stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice tops these sections of the building.

The screen wall to the right has a round-headed ground floor panel with an oval panel above, two brick bands, and a stone-coped parapet; a similar section adjoins the barn, but with a segmental-headed door. The screen walls to the left are similar, with a later blocked opening where a round-headed panel once stood, and an additional bay of stone-coped wall ramped up between projecting brick piers to the two-storey section. All panels have brick surrounds and traces of original colour-washed plaster with glazing bars in relief—the pointed panels feature intersecting Gothick bars, the oval panels have radial bars, and the round-headed panels have oval “panes” beneath radial bars. A round attic opening is present in the right gable-end of the stable. The rear of the stables features segmental-arched blind arcades. At the time of survey, the outbuildings were disused and derelict with the exception of one stable stall on the right.