Stable Block 100 Metres West Of Beauchief Hall

SHEFFIELD

SK38SW BEAUCHIEF DRIVE 784-1/9/72 (North West side) 28/06/73 Stable block 100m west of Beauchief Hall (Formerly Listed as: BEAUCHIEF DRIVE Main stable block to Beauchief Hall)

GV II

Stable block, now offices. Dated 1667, remodelled 1836, with late C20 alterations. Rear range late C18. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate, artificial slate and stone slate roofs with single ridge and external rear wall stacks. Quoins, coped gables. Openings have stone lintels and surrounds. EXTERIOR: main block, 2 storeys; 4 window range. L-plan. To left, projecting wing with ramped coped shaped gable topped with corniced square dovecote with weathervane. Gable has a full height round-headed recess with a single 12 pane sash on each floor and above them, a clock. Block to right has three 12 pane sashes under shouldered shaped gables with finials. Below, 3 similar windows. Between the pair to left, a C19 6-panel door, and above it, 3 masks, one of them reset, and a datestone inscribed "Edward Pegge AD 1667". Another stone inscribed "BB / PB". Left return has a projecting centre with a ramped shaped coped gable with finial and a full height round-headed recess with a 12 pane sash on each floor. On the ground floor, on either side, a 12 pane sash. Rear elevation has four 12 pane sashes and below, mainly C20 fenestration. At the rear, barns and stables on 3 sides of a courtyard. Single storey stable range, to north, has artificial slate and stone slate roofs. To left, a board door flanked by single blocked doors, and to right, a 12 pane sash flanked by single board doors with overlights. 2 storey barn range, to west, has a central barn door opening with ashlar jambs and wooden lintel. On either side, 2 breathers, the upper left one enlarged and glazed. To right again, an unglazed 2-light casement, and below, a blocked door and window with a common wooden lintel, and to their right, 2 doorways with chamfered ashlar surrounds, the right one larger. To left, an unglazed 2-light casement and below, a C20 garage door with concrete lintel. At the rear, central barn doors and 4 square pitch holes. To left, 3 unglazed openings. To right, 2 unglazed windows. South gable has a square window on each floor, the lower one blocked, and the upper unglazed one with a pitching eye above it. Single storey lean-to range, to south, has 3 stable doors and 3 small casements. At the rear, 2 partly blocked windows with a pitching eye above each of them. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3280581451