Stable complex at Evenwood Farm

Stable complex at Evenwood Farm, mid- to late 19th century.

This stable complex stands on the south-west side of the unclassified road between Kenley and Acton Burnell, immediately north of the farmhouse at Evenwood Farm. It is constructed of rubble stone with brick dressings and tiled roofs.

The complex has a T-shaped footprint. The east-west range forms the south-facing elevation and contains, from west to east, a pigsty, a stable with hayloft, and a cartshed, with a detached privy at the east end. The northern range contains two pigsties and a store room.

The stable and cartshed form the earliest element. The stable is two storeys high with a pitched roof. Its ground floor has a doorway and window, both with rubbed brick segmental arches and brick architraves. The roof line steps down to a single storey above the cartshed, which features a wide carriageway opening with timber plank doors and a window to the left. Windows to both the cartshed and stable are in multi-light metal frames. The eaves are lined with brick. The north elevation of the stable has a brick-lined square opening to the hayloft. Other elevations are largely blind.

Three pigsties are incorporated into the design. One abuts the west gable of the stable, whilst the other two project from its north elevation. All are low stone structures with pitched roofs. The single sty has brick detailing to the doorway and a small window in its gable. Each sty is fronted by a yard enclosed by stone walls.

The store room abuts the north gable of the pair of pigsties. It is a single-storey, square-plan structure with a pitched roof and a brick chimneystack. It has a window on the north gable and a doorway on the west elevation, both lined in brick. The angles of the building have rough stone quoins. A blocked brick fireplace within the southern wall suggests it may once have functioned as a tack room.

The privy stands detached from the east gable of the cartshed, though linked by low stone screen walls. It is a single-storey structure with a pitched roof, a pegged timber frame doorway on the east gable, and a small window in the gable.

Internally, the stable retains mangers set upon brick arches and wall-mounted iron hayracks. Above these are openings to the hay loft. A timber stall partition divides the space, and the floor is brick with a drainage gulley. The cartshed contains an internal partition creating two cells. The narrow western cell has a small brick corner hearth with an arched brick smoke hood, possibly truncated from a functioning chimney. The pigsties and store have brick floors. The privy has a quarry-tiled floor. Roof structures throughout have coupled rafters and a ridge board, whilst the stable and cartshed have a single tier of purlins.