Stable/Coach House Range And North Courtyard Gateway Adjoining North West Side Of Scawby Hall

SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY VICARAGE LANE (east side, off)

19/97 Stable/coach-house range and north courtyard gateway adjoining north- west side of Scawby Hall (formerly listed as Scawby Hall)

GV II

Stable/coach-house with granary over, incorporating former entrance porch to south, with courtyard gateway adjoining to north. Porch dated 1686, remainder of range late C18 with C19 - early C20 alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings-and stacks; brick to C17 section. Pantile roofs throughout. Rectangular on plan, with south porch section facing Hall (qv); forms west side of north courtyard to rear of Hall, with gateway adjoining at right angles to north end. Main range, east front: 2 storeys, 17 first-floor openings. 6 first-floor openings to stable/granary to left of centre, with later 10-bay coach-house/cart-shed to right and single-window section to left with lower 2-storey C17 section set back to left gable end. Quoins to limestone sections. Coach-house section to right: 10 elliptical rubbed-brick arches with raised ashlar keystones and imposts on brick piers: 4 arches to left with pairs of board doors with strap hinges, 3 arches to centre open, 2 to right blocked, with 6-pane casement and 12-pane sliding sash beneath segmental arches; open arch at right end to through-passage. Stable range to left: 3 board doors flanked by 2-light and 3-light sliding sashes beneath segmental arches; 2 external flights of steps to first-floor entrances. To left, steps up to board door with 2-light sliding sash to left beneath flat arches, steps down to cellar door beneath segmental arch. First floor: single louvred hatches above carriage arches, with 2 unequal 9-pane sashes to left; board doors and 12- pane sliding sashes to stable/granary. Stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Tumbled-in brick to gables. Pair of axial stacks and early C20 lateral stack to left. North courtyard wall adjoining to right has wide rubbed-brick elliptical arch with ashlar imposts, C20 sliding doors, pantile coping. Projecting C17 gabled section to left return has blocked ground- floor 4-centred arch doorway with chamfered brick imposts containing blocked segmental-arched window, 2-course brick first-floor band, stucco quoins to first floor, recessed 2-light brick cavetto-mullioned window in stucco surround with later slatted shutters, corbelled 2-course brick band, 3- course brick coping to gable with corbelled kneelers and small central inscribed datestone. West side of range, facing garden, has pair of small 6-pane casements to C17 section, 2-light and 3-light sliding sashes with glazing bars beneath segmental arches, unequal 9-pane sashes, boarded and louvred hatches, single ground and first-floor 6-panel doors, elliptical arch to left; stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Drawing by C Nattes, 1795, Banks Collection, Lincoln City Library; photographs in NMR.

Listing NGR: SE9685905738