Stable Court At Renishaw Hall

Stable Court at Renishaw Hall, built in 1795, was designed by Joseph Badger of Sheffield. The building is constructed from ashlar and coursed rubble coal measures sandstone, with a moulded eaves cornice and slate roof coverings. It has a double courtyard plan, featuring a pedimented portico to the entrance, corner pavilions on the principal elevations, and intermediate and end pavilions along the outer walls.

The east elevation is symmetrical, with a 1-3-1-3-1 bay arrangement, centered around a portico with a pediment above a semi-circular headed entrance archway. The pediment displays the Sitwell coat of arms in Coade stone. Pairs of attached Tuscan columns flank the archway. Above the entrance is a domed cupola with coupled Tuscan columns in the corners, louvred faces, and a lead-covered roof, topped with an ornamental weather vane. Flanking the portico are single-story three-bay ranges with 4x4 pane sash windows, some with painted sashes. Advanced square pavilions at the ends have Venetian windows with semi-circular recesses. The upper floor includes 2x3-light sash windows. The flanking ranges are constructed in rubble sandstone, with sash windows in some openings and other openings blocked by wedge lintels finished to resemble voussoirs. A central pavilion features a six-pane sash window above a Venetian window.

The entrance courtyard is completely paved with stone setts, with a pedimented central doorway to the north range, flanked by sash windows below wedge lintels. The south flanking range has two plain doorways and three sash windows, connecting the intermediate pavilions, and a seven-bay single-story range with five segmental arched openings to the center, the central one providing access to the inner courtyard, while the rest were formerly carriage sheds with six-panel double doors with curved heads, which are mostly renewed. At each end of this range are a single plain doorway beneath a wedge lintel, and a sash window.

The inner court has an arcaded south range, with semi-circular arched openings that are now infilled. The north side features four tall sash windows beneath wedge lintels, one doorway with a chamfered quoined surround at the west end, and a plain doorway beneath a wedge lintel at the east end, with a nine-pane sash window above. The west end of the inner court is closed by a three-bay barn with a concrete tiled hipped roof, featuring an advanced central bay with a segmental arch for a tall cart opening and circular pitching eyes to the overlofts of the end bays. Ventilation slits are present on the ground floor, and plain doorways have been inserted at each end, with renewed doors. Inside the main stable, round headed niches were built for fodder to each stall.