Stable Range At Stapleford Hall

The stable range at Stapleford Hall is a stable block built in 1899, designed by P. Dollar for John Gretton. It is in the Baroque Revival style and constructed from coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The roofs are gabled and hipped, covered with Collyweston slate. The building features a chamfered plinth, moulded string courses, eaves, and square domed lead roof ventilators. There are four external side wall stacks and one ridge coped stone stack. The structure is two storeys high, measuring ten bays wide by six bays deep, arranged in a quadrangular plan around a yard, with the south side closed off by a coped wall and a pair of rusticated gatepiers.

The windows are glazing bar sashes, some of which have projecting architraves. On the west side of the courtyard, there is a one and a half storey pavilion with a shaped shouldered gable on the left, and to its right, a single storey range featuring twelve sashes and four doors. The north side has a projecting two storey, three bay centre with a rusticated ground floor. This section includes a central door with brackets supporting a broken segmental pediment, flanked by single sashes. Above, there are three tall sashes and four swagged Ionic pilasters, topped by a segmental pediment with a circular window and a domed octagonal cupola with a clock.

To the left of the north side, there is a one and a half storey range with a central door flanked by three sashes, and above, three cross eaves dormers with segmental pediments. To the right, a two storey range features an off-centre door and three sashes, with two projecting stacks and four sashes with segmental pediments above. The east side has a two storey range on the left with a rusticated ground floor and six pairs of carriage doors, and above, four irregularly coupled windows with gable and segmental pediments. To the right, there is a single storey range with two doors and five sashes. The exterior displays irregular fenestration with casements, and on the north side, there is a Venetian window to the south and above it, a pair of loading doors, supported by curved stone brackets that carry a pulley and hood.