Stable Court At Bestwood Lodge Hotel

Stable Court at Bestwood Lodge Hotel is a stable court, constructed in 1862 and altered in 1985. It was designed by S. S. Teulon for the 10th Duke of St. Albans as part of the outbuildings of Bestwood Lodge. The building is constructed of brick with slate roofs, featuring ashlar and brick dressings. It is built in a Gothic Revival style.

The stable court has a square plan with a central courtyard and is 13 bays wide by 8 bays deep. It incorporates chamfered plinth, a dentillated string course, coped gables with finials and kneelers, and three ridge stacks. A cross-gabled roof vent is also present. The north front has a buttressed, off-centre gatehouse and projecting gables at each end. The gatehouse's pointed archway is flanked by seven casements to the left and four to the right. Above the archway is a central casement flanked by five slit casements and single casements beyond. Above this is a clock with a gabled canopy on brackets. The east side includes a double gable to the right, with regular fenestration of nine casements, the one in the right gable being larger. Three 20th-century gabled dormers are located above. The main gable to the right features a large casement flanked by smaller casements. The west side has ten casements and an external flue to the right; a round window is situated above the flue, flanked by single gables. The south side was extended and rebuilt in 1985 and now features nine garage doors, with a pointed casement within each gable at the ends.

Within the courtyard, to the north, is a gabled gatehouse with a chamfered archway. To the right of the gatehouse is a two-storey square tower with a square pyramidal bell turret. To the left of the gatehouse are two doors flanked by a triple lancet and a casement, followed by four casements, and then a door and a casement. The gatehouse has a hipped square oriel on brackets and a clock with a gabled canopy above, with a slit casement containing five pigeonholes above. The east side of the courtyard features three doors alternating with seven casements, a gable with a casement, and two dormers. The west side has four altered carriage openings, three doors, and three casements, with three dormers above. The south side has twelve 20th-century garage doors. The courtyard’s interior includes stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.