Stable Block At Babworth Hall

SK 68 SE 6/2

BABWORTH BABWORTH HALL DRIVE (west side ) Stable Block at Babworth Hall

G.V. II

Stable block. Early C19. Ashlar, render and red brick. Slate roofs, hipped to the north and west. With single brick ridge stacks to the south and north and 2 gable stacks to the cottage. Quadrangle plan. Single storey with a 1 1/2 storey cottage to the east. Set on an ashlar plinth. West side of 8 bays with 6 large arched carriage doorways, each with double, panelled, wooden door. Flanked by single dorways with panelled doors and traceried overlights. The left doorway is blocked. All have rusticated surrounds and arches, with a keystone in the arch. In the centre is a clock with wooden case. The south, rendered, side of 7 bays has from right to left a single blocked doorway with rusticated ashlar splayed lintel, a single segmental glazing bar casement with ashlar surround with sill on the same level as the door lintel, a similar single blocked doorway and lintel, a similar single casement and surround, a single doorway with panelled door, partially glazed, and similar lintel, a similar single casement and surround and a single blocked doorway replaced by a C20 casement with similar lintel. The east, rendered, side of 7 bays has a central rusticated carriage-arch with keystone. To the right is a doorway with panelled door and rusticated ashlar splayed lintel flanked by single segmental glazing bar casements with ashlar surrounds. To the left is a 1 1/2 storey, 3 bay, cottage, having red brick gables where heightened. Central doorway, panelled door and rusticated and painted splayed ashlar lintel. Flanked by single glazing bar sashes with 2 small sashes above. The north, rendered, side has 4 single doorways with panelled doors and rusticated splayed ashlar lintels, these alternate with 3 segmental glazing bar casements with ashlar surrounds, the sills of which are level with the door lintels.

Listing NGR: SK6873781040