Wellingore Garage

Wellingore Garage

This is a double-height building constructed in the form of a barn, built from local limestone rubble laid to courses with roughly ashlared dressings, and covered with a pantile-clad half-hipped roof. The building has a rectangular plan with its short end facing the road, incorporating a covered drive-through loggia. The original footprint was doubled by the addition of a single-storey extension to the south-west in the 1980s, which uses matching local rubble stone but is not considered of special interest.

The south-east front elevation features a covered drive-way, now forming a projection, where the petrol pumps were originally situated. This is designed as a triple-arched loggia with battered outer piers, creating the impression of a triumphal arch. The larger central arch is flanked by two smaller semi-circular brick arches, all constructed of roughly dressed stone with cyma recta ashlared kneelers. Late 20th-century petrol pumps now stand in front, which are not of special interest. Behind the loggia is a wide opening consisting of four planked doors with glazed upper sections, believed to be original. To the right is an original multi-paned metal-framed window with a concrete sill; to the left, a similar window has been opened to form a doorway. All original apertures feature segmental arch heads.

The 1980s extension is set back to the left of the loggia, constructed in the same local rubble stone with a pantile-clad hipped roof. Its end wall is battered to echo the form of the loggia. Three windows divided by glazing bars into three horizontal bands sit under the eaves, followed by a door with a glazed upper panel. The left return contains two similar windows, followed by a blind wall under a flat roof housing the office. The end section of the extension has a slightly higher flat roof and contains a wide opening leading to the rear workshop. The original triangular gable of the central bay remains visible behind the extension.

The rear elevation displays a blocked central opening with its wide segmental arch head still visible, with a smaller door inserted to the right. This is flanked by two windows which have been replaced, while a horizontal metal-framed window under the eaves is original. To the right is the rear wall of the extension, lit by a horizontal window under a flat brick arch. The cyma recta kneeler has been removed on the right end to accommodate the extension. The north-east elevation features a central triangular gabled bay with a wide opening providing workshop access. This was originally flanked by a group of three multi-paned metal-framed windows with concrete sills, but those on the left were lost when the wide opening was inserted for vehicular access.

Internally, the steel king-post roof was intact in the 1980s but is now obscured by an inserted lower ceiling. The wide central opening on the north-east elevation has a roller shutter door with opening mechanism, believed to be original. The original office and lavatories have been removed to create a single open workshop space, though the former positions of the apertures on what was previously the outside wall of the south-west elevation remain legible, as do the positions of the former three windows on the right-hand side.