North Stable Block At Woolley Hall

SE3212 and SE3213 WOOLLEY WOOLLEY PARK

7/144 22.11.66 North stable block at Woolley Hall

GV II

Stables, now accommodation for residential college. Early C19, possibly by Watson and Pritchett c1805-10 (Markham p45). Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. U-shaped plan facing south-east. 2 storeys. 9-bay symmetrical facade with 7-bay symmetrical wings. Continuous plinth, 1st-floor sill band. Central range: bays 2, 5 and 7 break forward slightly and have semicircular-arched recesses to ground floor, tall 24-pane sashes to 1st floor of bays 2 and 7, and to bay 5 a Diocletian window and pedimented gable, the tympanum with heraldic plaque carved with the Wentworth griffin. Gable topped by clock-tower with open rotunda and lead dome surmounted by weathervane with griffin crest. Other bays have 16-pane sash windows with lintels and projecting sills. Eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Outer bays under low roof, linking main blocks to wings, have round-headed doorways. Wings: inner returns have central 3 bays breaking forward under open pedimented gables, central doorways with narrower flanking windows and central round-headed 1st-floor window with impost band; hipped roofs; West wing with gable stack.

G. Markham, Woolley Hall (1979).

Listing NGR: SE3278413145