The Coach House And Adjoining Forecourt Walls

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. CLAYPIT STREET (north-west SJ 54 SW and SJ 5441 side) 1/50 and 7/50 The Coach House and 11.6.73 adjoining forecourt walls (formerly listed as The Coach House at the Old Rectory, London Road) GV II

Stable block and coach house, now house. Circa 1749, restored in the late C20. Red brick with hipped plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Plinth, plat band (with raised top course) , C20 boxed eaves, and integral brick end stacks. South-east front: 3:1:3 bays; segmental headed 2-light wooden casements (replaced in C20), cross windows to ground floor. Doorway in second bay from right. Pair of elliptical-arched coach-house doorways to left, which each have a pair of large boarded doors with strap hinges. Central gabled break with oculus in apex and elliptical-arched carriageway with raised brick keystone. Pair of cast-iron gates with spearhead railings and red sandstone hinge blocks. Evidence of former stone shield on wall above arch (see disturbed brickwork). Forecourt walls flanking central entrance. Red brick with stone coping. Each wall turns through 90 with canted corners,to form enclosures to left and right. Square piers with pyramidal caps, those flanking entrance with C18 wrought-iron lamp standards. Pair of boarded gates to left, with flanking gate piers. Rear: 3:1:3 bays; segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements (replaced in C20), cross windows to ground floor. Boarded doors in second and sixth bays with 2-part segmental-headed overlights. Central gabled break with oculus in apex and elliptical-arched carriageway with raised brick keystone. This was formerly the stable block and coach house to The Old Rectory (q.v.). Both the house and stable block stand within a moated site.

Listing NGR: SJ5416642010