Former Office Range, Corner Pavilions, Gatehouse And Enclosing Walls To Outer Service Courtyard Adjoining Attingham Park To North-West

This is a service courtyard, including an office range, corner pavilions, a gatehouse, and enclosing walls, situated to the north-west of Attingham Park. It was built between 1783 and 1785, designed by George Steuart for the first Lord Berwick.

The courtyard is rectangular, featuring a red brick office range with grey Grinshill sandstone ashlar dressings and facing on the ground floor of the central block, all under slate roofs. The office range comprises a central block with lower, set-back wings. The central block has a plinth, a first-floor cill band, a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a balustraded parapet. It has seven bays, arranged in a 3:1:3 rhythm, with a recessed central section. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with round-arched, gauged-headed first-floor windows set back within recessed round arches. A segmental-headed carriage entrance has chamfered reveals and boarded doors. The wings feature plinths, cill bands, an ashlar band above the first-floor windows, a frieze, a moulded cornice and a blocking course, and contain glazing bar sashes and flush-panelled doors with 3-part rectangular overlights.

The corner pavilions are constructed from grey Grinshill sandstone ashlar with some red brick facing the courtyard, and have pyramidal slate roofs. Each pavilion has a plinth, a courtyard cill band, a fluted and moulded impost band, a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course. They feature projecting corner piers and central blind-arched recesses facing the park; the north-east pavilion has flanking paired Ionic pilasters supporting sections of entablature. Former kennels are located to the north-west, with an outbuilding to the east, adjoining the pavilions, all constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, stone cill and impost bands, a stone-coped parapet, and glazing bar sashes with gauged heads. Panelled doors are set back in outer brick bays within recessed gauged-brick blind arches.

The gatehouse is constructed from Grinshill sandstone ashlar, with channelled-rusticated ground floor, a string course, a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course. A circular cupola features 8 Tuscan columns supporting an entablature and lead dome. The gatehouse has three bays arranged in a 1:1:1 rhythm, with a central projection. The first floor has blind square panels flanking the central clock, and the ground floor has glazing bar sashes. A central round-arched carriage entrance leads to a groin-vaulted passage.

The enclosing walls are built of red brick with ashlar dressings and facing to the park, approximately 4 metres high, with a plinth and coping, ramping up towards the main house.