Stables To Former Swillington House

SE 32 NE SWILLINGTON WAKEFIELD ROAD LS26 (east side, off)

6/57 Stables to former Swillington House

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Two stable blocks, with linking screen walls, now partly dwellings. Early C19 (Swillington House built 1804; Pevsner); altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roofs. Long rectangular ranges at right angles, forming the east and north sides of a large courtyard (an earlier range on the south side not included in the item). Both 2 storeys, the main range slightly higher, symmetrical, in modified classical style, with bands, giant pilasters and corner pilasters; and segmental heads to the bays between these; the main range of 5 + 3 + 5 bays has banded corner pilasters, and a wider centre bay with similar pilasters, arched doorways at ground floor now (1986) mostly covered by a flat-roofed porch, segmental-headed tripartite windows at 1st floor; the outer bays have 16-pane sashed windows on both floors, those at 1st floor also segmental-headed, except in the centre of the right-hand part at ground floor, where there is a plain doorway. The north range, of 12 bays, has similar windows and doors mostly alternating at ground floor, all with rectangular ventilating panel above, and low segmental-headed 8-pane windows at 1st floor. Hipped roofs with projecting eaves.

Listing NGR: SE3797229408