Former Stables And Arched Wall Attaching It To The Old Coach House

The building is a stable range with a connecting arched wall to an old coach house, dating from approximately 1775. It was likely built shortly after the rebuilding of Cliffe House, which it served. The construction is primarily brick, with some ashlar dressings, and slate roofs.

The front (east) elevation features a hipped slate roof and a central doorway with small flanking windows contained within an arched, bar-entrance style surround. Pairs of round-headed windows flank plain doors on either side. The first floor has three small semi-circular lights centrally, flanked by round-headed loading doors, with further small semi-circular lights at each end. Wooden window frames and doors are likely 19th-century replacements. The north end elevation has a small square window to the first floor.

Inside, the ground floor retains intact loose boxes with wrought iron columns, and a central staircase leads to the first floor. The first floor is divided into three rooms with exposed roof trusses. The screen wall is brick, rising to form a double-height arched opening, which connects to the corner eaves of the coach house and stable range. It is supported by two tapering, square-sectioned stone columns with plain ashlar pediments. The flanking walls, approximately 2.5 metres high, drop in a quarter-round shape to meet stone gateposts defining a broad entrance. Beyond the entrance is a secondary, narrow yard, closed at its west end by a single-storey brick building extending northward from the stables. Freestanding outbuildings are located at and beyond the east end of the yard.

Cliffe Hill, the adjoining mansion, is believed to have been built in 1775. The stables and coach house complex are of a similar date and were designed in a fashionable Neo-classical manner, intended to impress, alongside modest park-like grounds. The stable range and attached enclosure walls form a group with the former coach house, now a dwelling.