Stable Block Including The Stable Cottage And The Grooms Cottage Approximately 30 Metres To South West Of Pitchford Hall

A stable block with associated cottages, dating from the mid-to-late 18th century, with alterations and extensions in the early 19th century and again in the late 19th century. The structure is built of red brick with sandstone dressings, and has plain tile roofs. It occupies a U-plan layout around a courtyard, incorporating a coach house, stable, and dovecote to the south-east, a carriageway at the north-east corner, and a brick wall partially enclosing the open end to the south. The building is two storeys high, with a dentil brick eaves cornice and stone-coped parapeted gable ends, and central brick ridge stacks to the north and west ranges, with an integral lateral brick stack to the north range.

The north front has a 7-window arrangement, featuring 2-light leaded wooden casements. There are three late 19th-century gables with planked timbers, two of which are above a projection containing a pair of blocked round arches. A large Tudor-arched carriageway is positioned off-centre to the left, with a clock above it. The courtyard’s fenestration is irregular, with small-paned casements under sandstone lintels, some first-floor glazing bar sashes, boarded and half-glazed doors, and a pair of large boarded garage doors to the north range.

The south-east block comprises a stable and coach house connected to the dovecote. This section is arranged as 3:2:3 bays. A projecting central tower features a boarded loft door with a segmental head, two ground-floor depressed arches with keystones and impost blocks, each with a pair of large boarded doors, and a dovecote above. The dovecote has a pyramidal roof and an octagonal wooden cupola, with round-arched openings, a square base, and an ogee lead dome. To the right of the tower is the coach house, with a hipped roof, a first-floor 2-light wooden casement, a boarded door with a 2-light rectangular overlight and segmental relieving arch, and a pair of depressed arches with keystones, impost blocks and boarded doors. The stable is to the left, featuring a central boarded loft door, and two glazing bar sashes with segmental relieving arches flanking a central boarded door with a 2-part rectangular overlight and segmental relieving arch. The interior of the 18th-century block contains a forge with a very large bellows and its levered operating mechanism. The stable block forms a cohesive group with Pitchford Hall.