Sprotbrough Park Stables

SE50SW SPROTBROUGH PARK DRIVE (south side, off) 7/149 Sprotbrough Park Stables (part of item formerly listed as 5.6.68 Sprotbrough Park Stables, central entrance archway) II

Stable-bock now derelict and used as store. Probably late C18, for the Copley family of Sprotbrough Hall (demolished 1926). Roughcast and stuccoed rubble limestone, corrugated-iron and sheet-asbestos roofs although some Westmorland slates remain. 2-storey entrance gateway and end pavilions with single-storey, 3-bay link blocks; wing to rear of each pavilion. Plinth, large quoins exposed beneath decayed rendering. Central round arch has impost band to keyed archivolt flanked by lozenge-shaped panels in the renderings Deep band beneath 5 oculi in architraves (outer and central oculi blind). Pedimented gable. Link blocks (obscured it time of resurvey) have joints ruled on stucco and have sashes with glazing bars and central stack on front roof slope. Pavilions each have door beneath bracketed ledge to lst-floor door with overlight and round, brick arch. Pyramidal roofs with oversailing eaves. Altered rear wings retain some round-arched doorways and unequally-hung 15-pane sashes.

Listing NGR: SE5403901995