Former Stable Block At Home Farm And Attached Archway

STAINBOROUGH WENTWORTH CASTLE SE30SW 1/53 Former stable-block at Home Farm and attached 18.3.68 archway (formerly listed as outbuilding at Wentworth Castle next to St James Church, later as part of Home Farm barn and stable block at Home Farm) GV II Stable-block under reconstruction and conversion to residences at time of resurvey. Probably c1715, as barn (q.v.), by Joseph Bower, estate mason, for Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, archway added 1788. Coursed rubble sandstone, roof removed. 2 storeys, 11 bays. Rusticated ashlar quoins. Bays 2, 6 and 10 have corniced doorways that to bay 6 with consoles and Diocletain window over. Square-faced surround to ground floor windows, projecting sills to 1st floor. Left end has flush quoins and attached archway in line with facade having projecting piers and impost band to round arch, square openings in the spandrels; wing walls with round-arched recesses, fixed stone bench on right. Rear: 3 offset buttresses, walling rebuilt. Gabled porch with reset arch above having Cl2-style beakhead ornament. Interior: gutted. Major element of the Home Farm group.

Listing NGR: SE3199503268