Coach House And Attached Buildings At Elvaston Castle

This is an early 19th-century coach house and attached range, built in Tudor style by James Wyatt for the Earls of Harrington. The buildings are constructed of tooled ashlar and red brick, with stone dressings and a plain stone plinth. They have hipped graduated slate roofs, partially concealed by embattled parapets to the east facade and the three central bays of the west facade. A rendered timber-framed clock tower, topped with an embattled turret, rises from the centre of the east facade.

The main, east-facing elevation is of ashlar, with three central bays projecting and the centre bay advanced again, featuring stepped corner buttresses and a continuous double-chamfered pointed arch through the building. Similar, lower blocked arches are present either side of and above this feature. Chamfered cross windows with returned hoodmolds are recessed on either side of a three-light window with four-centred arched lights. The side wings each have three blocked four-centred arched single light windows with returned hoods to the ground floor and three similar glazed windows above, with stepped buttresses to either side.

The west facade has side wings in red brick, and three centre bays in ashlar, mirroring the east elevation, except the side bays have panelled doors within the arches and the centre bay lacks buttresses. Each side wing features two four-centred arched doorcases with incised spandrels, returned hoods, and panelled doors, flanked by two recessed and chamfered cross windows with similar hoods, and single light windows to the outer side. Above, each wing has two central two-light windows, flanked by pairs of similar single light windows.

A single-storey range is attached to the north of the west elevation. An advanced section to the west has two wide four-centred arches, now filled with doors and glazed screens, and is flanked by recessed lower bays with four-centred arched windows beneath returned hoods and segment-headed plain sashes. A later single bay section to the east connects this range to the main building. This has a brick segment headed doorcase with a panelled door to the west and a two-light segment headed window to the east.

To the west end of the north range, a low ashlar wall with ridgeback copings and a deep plinth extends south. It features a pair of tall panelled early 19th-century stone gate piers at its southern end. The interior detail is not described.