Stable Block And Stable Cottage Approximately 40 To North West Of Sansaw

SJ 5023-5123 CLIVE C.P. -

16/10 Stable block and - stable cottage approx. 40 metres to north-west of Sansaw

GV II

Stable block. Circa 1888. Red brick with brown brick bands and grey Grinshill sandstone dressings; hipped slate roof. U-plan with walls enclosing courtyard to north; Hybrid Tudor Gothic/Queen Anne Revival style. One storey and loft with attached 2-storey cottage. South front: chamfered brick plinth, moulded string course, frieze and moulded cornice, and brick ridge stack off-centre to left with toothed cap. Central octagonal wooden cupola on lead-sheathed base, with keyed round arches, moulded cornice and ogee lead dome with weathervane. 1:1:1 bays. Central break consisting of roll-moulded Tudor archway with 2 wrought-iron gates, flanking wide pilaster strips with channelled rustication and moulded plinths, and large triangular pediment above with cornice broken back below and clock with keyed moulded architrave in tympanum. Moulded-brick Tudor-arched small-paned wooden cross windows to left and right of centre with hoodmoulds. Rear with 4 circular pitching eyes, 2 pairs of windows and toothed brick eaves cornice. Eastern (coach house) range: 2 brick ridge stacks. 5 first-floor 3-light segmental-headed windows and 3 pairs of large boarded doors with strap hinges, Tudor arches and hoodmoulds. Western range: 2 brick ridge stacks and 2 gabled semi-dormers. Interior of ground-floor stables contain complete wooden stalls with quarter- round moulded posts and beams. House adjoining to right with triangular pedimented gable to front. Doorway with moulded arch and keystone and pedimented gabled projection with canted bay at rear. Brick walls closing off north side of courtyard including pair of square gate piers, each with vermiculated rustication, chamfered plinth, and cap with globe finial. This stable block was probably built as part of the alterations and improvements to Sansaw (q.v.) and the estate c.1888. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ5090923210