Stable Block Including Stable Bungalow And Adjoining Cart Shed And Granary Approximately 25 Metres To North East Of Berwick House

This is a stable block, built around 1878, likely by Stevens of Birmingham. It is located approximately 25 metres north-east of Berwick House. The building is constructed of red brick with grey sandstone ashlar dressings, and has hipped plain tile roofs. It is arranged in a U-shape around a courtyard, comprising a two-story-and-attic coach house range to the north-west, lower flanking wings with attics, and an enclosing wall to the south.

The north-west range features chamfered quoins and a moulded brick eaves cornice. A central break in the roof contains an attic storey with three round-arched glazing bar sashes, architraves, imposts, and keystones. Elaborate carved scrolls and fluted pilasters on brackets support a triangular pediment containing a clock within its tympanum, topped by a lead-covered balustrade with urns. Brick end stacks are situated centrally and at the ends of this range, with pilasters to the corners and moulded cornices. The façade has a 2:2:2 bay arrangement, with glazing bar sashes, stone cills, and gauged-brick heads with triple keystones. There are three pairs of segmental-headed boarded doors on the ground floor, with smaller doors to the left and right. A large covered area extends forward, supported by cast-iron posts and featuring three gables.

The north-east and south-west ranges have small-paned casements, segmental-headed boarded doors with chamfered reveals, and small hipped dormers with centre-hung casements. Brick ridge stacks are present. The south ends of the wings have a stone plinth, chamfered stone quoins, a moulded brick eaves cornice, and a hipped dormer. Each of these ends has two bays with glazing bar sashes, stone cills, and gauged-brick heads with keystones. A small stable cottage is attached to the end of the left-hand wing, facing into the stable yard with a seven-bay elevation.

A forecourt wall has stone coping, with a central pair of square stone piers topped with pyramidal caps. Flanking the piers are doorways. Adjoining the wall to the right is a cart shed and granary, which features a plinth, quoins, a moulded eaves cornice, a hipped dormer, and a brick stack to the rear. The front of the cart shed and granary has two glazing bar sashes, a small dormer, a large hipped dormer with a boarded loft door, and a two-bay cart-shed entrance to the returns.

The interior of the stables was not inspected. Stevens of Birmingham altered and enlarged Berwick House in 1878, at which point the former 18th-century stables were incorporated into the house as a domestic wing. The 1878 stables are located on the site of the former 18th-century kitchen garden.