Stable Block, Barn And Attached Outbuildings At The Mantles

This is a late 18th-century stable block, barn, and attached outbuildings situated at The Mantles. The building is constructed of ashlar and red brick, with pantile roofs.

The stable block features a central two and a half storey single bay, flanked by two single two-storey five bay wings. The central bay is ashlar with a stone coped gable, kneelers to the front, and a hipped roof to the rear. It includes first and second-floor bands, a tall elliptical carriage arch with a keystone, an arched opening in the attic, and two round tie plates. The flanking wings, built of brick with ashlar quoins, have dentillated eaves and sit on an ashlar plinth. The left wing has a hipped roof and a single brick gable stack, and a rear brick stack. It contains two sashes, a single small casement replacing a doorway, and a single slatted opening with an overlight. The right wing has a blocked window, a doorway lacking a door but with an overlight, a blocked window, and a doorway with a wooden door and overlight. The first floor contains five slatted openings with overlights to the left wing, and four sash windows, mostly lacking glazing, to the right. All openings are set within segmental arches.

Projecting from the right wing are the attached outbuildings and barn. The barn is central, ashlar, with a hipped roof, and is two and a half storeys high with three bays and a plinth. It has a central doorway with large double doors under a wooden lintel, flanked by single slightly projecting pilasters supporting an arch. Either side are single doorways with flush ashlar lugged architraves, both partially blocked and glazed. There are four slit ventilators on the ground floor, six on the first floor, and four on the top floor. Flanking the barn are single brick stores, one attached to the stable block. A single-storey brick wing with ashlar quoins, plinth, and hipped roof projects from the right wing, with alternating blocked doorways (with two ashlar blocks at the base) and slatted openings with overlights (most lacking glazing), all set within segmental arches.

The rear of the buildings displays ashlar, with the barn having a similar arch and opening. The rear of the carriage archway has a circular blocked opening in the attic.