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

The stable block and stable cottage, located approximately 40 metres to the north-west of Sansaw, date to around 1888. Constructed of red brick with brown brick bands and grey Grinshill sandstone dressings, the building has a hipped slate roof. It is designed in a Hybrid Tudor Gothic/Queen Anne Revival style, forming a U-plan around a north-facing courtyard.

The south front features a chamfered brick plinth, moulded string course, frieze, and moulded cornice, along with a brick ridge stack offset to the left with a toothed cap. A central octagonal wooden cupola sits on a lead-sheathed base, incorporating keyed round arches, a moulded cornice, and an ogee lead dome with weathervane. The central section is defined by a roll-moulded Tudor archway with two wrought-iron gates, flanked by pilaster strips with channelled rustication and moulded plinths, and a large triangular pediment above. The pediment’s cornice is broken back below a clock housed within a keyed moulded architrave in the tympanum. Small-paned wooden cross windows with hoodmoulds are positioned to the left and right of the centre. The rear elevation reveals four circular pitching eyes and toothed brick eaves cornice.

The eastern range, which functions as a coach house, has two brick ridge stacks. It features five first-floor, three-light, segmental-headed windows, and three pairs of large boarded doors with strap hinges, Tudor arches, and hoodmoulds. The western range is similarly characterised by two brick ridge stacks and two gabled semi-dormers.

The interior of the ground-floor stables retains complete wooden stalls with quarter-round moulded posts and beams. The adjoining house has a triangular pedimented gable front and a canted bay at the rear. Brick walls enclose the north side of the courtyard, incorporating a pair of square gate piers with vermiculated rustication, a chamfered plinth, and a cap with a globe finial.

The stable block was likely constructed as part of the alterations and improvements to Sansaw and the estate around 1888 and is included for group value.