Stables And Cottage, Together With Hall Stable Cottage At Clipsham Hall

CLIPSHAM

SK 91 NE BRADLEY LANE (East side)

4/30 Stables and Cottage, together with Hall Stable Cottage at Clipsham Hall

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Stables with cottage, and further cottage of 1882. By A. Young for Davenport Handley family. Coursed squared stone with stone dressings and Collyweston slate roof with shouldered stone coped gables. Finials to shoulders and apex. Various stone ridge stacks. Extensive range of stabling in Jacobean style set around quadrangle including cottage in one corner and further separate Hall Stable Cottage to right of entrance. Further range of stabling behind left hand block. Entrance drive enters quadrangle on right side of square between near and right blocks passing Hall Stable Cottage on right. Straight ahead in far block is tower forming arched way over drive to Hall. To right of this tower in angle is other cottage. Blocks are land 1½ storeys with stone mullion windows. Facing quadrangle near block has 3 carriage doorways with segmental arches, hood moulds and label stops, and further door. A first floor covered bridge connects with left block. This has 2 gables with 4-light window in left and rounded archway in right, doors, windows and 2 square lanterns on roof ridge. Far block has 3 doorways with windows surrounding them and, to right, the tower with clock face and octagonal turret at side with ogee lead roof. Door in angle with right block. This has 3 dormers to left, gables to centre and right with first floor doors, and doors and 2-light windows below. Square lantern on roof ridge. On outside walls buttresses, windows and dormers. Hall Stable Cottage has canted bay on front gable, and porch, door, with dormer over, and 4-light with 3-light over on left side. The further 1 storey range behind left block has, in left corner, an octagonal 2 storey dovecote with lantern top. Further lantern on roof to right.

Listing NGR: SK9700616591