Stables At Ashwell Hall The Coach House Tower Cottage

ASHWELL

SK 81 SE OAKHAM ROAD (East side)

6/21 Stables at Ashwell Hall including Tower Cottage and the Coach House

GV II

Stables of c1879, part now 2 cottages. Coursed squared ironstone with limestone dressings and Collyweston slate roof with left end and other stone stacks. Shouldered stone coped gables with kneelers and finials. Stable block is in Elizabethan style and set round 3 sides of quadrangle of which Ashwell Hall (q.v.) across driveway is the 4th side. 1½ storeys of smallish pane iron frame 2 and 3-light windows, some panes horizontal pivoting. ½ dormers over ground floor. Middle side of 5 windows with central 2 storey projecting gable and octagonal wood and lead fleche with wrought iron weathervane and weathercock on roof ridge over. Doors and windows to ground floor. Left side of 4 windows with, in addition, on left a 2 storey canted stone bay with 2-light windows to front and sides and hipped roof. Otherwise doors and windows. On right side a ½ dormer and larger gable to right with doors and C20 windows beneath. Set in front are 2 iron columns supporting the side frame of the former carriage cover. To rear of these three ranges further gables, dormers, doors, windows and French windows. In addition, on rear of the left side a 1 storey wing with end stack, and the middle side extends further to left at the rear with in the angle, a polygonal staircase turret with conical roof.

Listing NGR: SK8697812966