Former Stable Block Adjoining Acton Reynald School To North East

SJ 5223-5323 SHAWBURY C.P. ACTON REYNALD

17/105 Former stable block - adjoining Acton Reynald School to north-east

GV II

Stable block, now schoolbuildings. Dated 1840, possibly by E. Haycock. Tooled grey sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Square courtyard plan. Neo-Tudor style. One and 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth, moulded string courses, parapet with moulded coping, and parapeted gables with moulded copings and small globe finials. East front: 2:3:2 bays; chamfered stone-mullioned windows with cast-iron lattice casements. Central gatehouse: 3 bays with central gabled break consisting of half-octagonal piers topped by carved horses' heads flanking large continuously-moulded Tudor archway with pair of large 4-panelled doors and with large carved Corbet coat of arms above. Tall central octagonal wooden cupola with lead- sheathed base, louvred round-arched openings with imposts, and ogee lead dome with globe finial and weathervane. Gable ends with first- floor stepped mullioned and transomed windows and small integral stone stacks. Flanking low ranges with pairs of gables and stepped mullioned and transomed windows. South range: 9 windows. 3 gables alternating with large fleurs-de-lys on the parapet. The west end of the north range is canted with a gable. Interior of courtyard: gatehouse with shield dated: "ACV/1840". One storey west range, supported on cast iron columns to front. Formerly open but now enclosed.

Listing NGR: SJ5349023276