Stable And Remains Of Attached Barn Immediately To South West Of Slade Hooton Hall

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SK 58 NW, 7/125

LAUGHTON-EN-LE-MORTHEN, SLADE HOOTON, Stable and remains of attached barn immediately to south-west of Slade Hooton Hall

(Parish formerly listed as: Thurcroft)

(Formerly listed as Outbuilding 8. of Glade Hooton Hall and Barn to Glade Hooton Hall)

29.03.68

GV

II*

Stable-block with remains of attached barn. Dated 1702 and 1705. For John Mirfin of Slade Hooton Hall. Coursed, square limestone, Welsh slate and pantile roofs. 2-storey, 3-bay stable-block with 2-storey barn attached to rear-right of which only two bays survive. Stable-block: chamfered ashlar quoins. Doorway on right with bolection-moulded architrave beneath 2-light mullioned overlight in square-faced surround. Inserted garage doors to left of centre, with cross window in raised ashlar surround on left. Central keyed oculus with keystones inscribed 'I. M. / 17 / 02'. Large, voluted kneelers and moulded gable copings. Right return: window with square-faced surround on left; inserted window to right; gable oculus. Attached barn on right has quoined segmentally-arched waggon entrance with later opening on left beneath 1st-floor hatch with arched lintel; right part of barn demolished. Rear of barn opposing waggon entrance has keystone inscribed 'I. M. / 1705'; external steps rise on right to door in rear of stable block. Stables depicted in Samuel Buck's sketch of Slade Hooton Hall (p82). Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook", c1720, facsimile edition 1979, Wakefield Historical Society.

Listing NGR: SK5240889217