Stable Cottage

Stable Cottage is a former stable block that has been converted into a cottage and garaging. It dates from the mid-18th century, with alterations made in the late 18th century and the 20th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and features a pantile roof. The front block has raised brick coped tumbled gables and a central brick ridge stack, while the rear block has a pyramidal roof and a central brick stack.

The front range is a single storey with attics and includes a brick dentillated eaves course. It has two late 18th-century Gothick lights that occupy the heads of former Diocletian window openings. The roof features two semi-circular dormer windows. At the right end of the ridge, there is a square ventilator topped with a pyramidal lead roof. The gable end has one metal glazing bar window with a central hinged casement in a segmentally headed opening, and a clock is set into the gable. To the right, there are two 19th-century planked double doors and two hipped dormers above.

The two-storey rear range has stone corbelled eaves and is connected to the front by a single-storey ramped section, which is balanced by a similar ramped wall to the left. Both sections contain semi-circular headed archways, with the one on the right being blocked. The two central bays consist of blocked Diocletian window openings, and there is a central Diocletian window on the first floor. All openings have stone surrounds with raised keystones. The stable block is depicted in a drawing by Claude Nattes from 1793 in the Banks Collection, located next to the original 17th-century Hackthorn Hall.