Former Kitchen Garden Walls And Attached Barn And Outbuildings To North West Of Stables At Apley Castle

These are former kitchen garden walls and attached barn and outbuildings located to the northwest of the stables at Apley Castle. The original garden walls date to the early 17th century and are constructed of random bond brick with triangular stone coping. A complete section remains of the northeast wall and the southeast return, featuring an early 17th-century doorway with a stop-chamfered square-headed architrave on its northeast return. The northwest wall has been incorporated into the front wall of a mid-19th century brick cowhouse with a gabled plain tile roof.

Further south, a 16th-century wall of squared and coursed sandstone with triangular coping extends from the center of the northwest wall, terminating in piers where an entry was later blocked with 19th-century brickwork. This wall connects to a row of early 19th-century pigsties and a two-story outbuilding with gabled old tile roofs. A section of the 17th-century brick wall, retaining some of its stone coping, extends to the southeast.

The southwest section of the wall is incorporated into the front wall of a brick barn and stable range with gabled old tile roofs. The barn, dating to the mid-18th century, was doubled in size with an early 19th-century extension, featuring sandstone hinge blocks to two segmental-arched threshing floor doors. It also has a timber lintel and flat header arches over a loft door and three ground-floor doorways. A stable, constructed around 1800, is characterised by a segmental-arched doorway, flanking windows, and a later 19th-century lean-to extension to the south.

The interior of the 7-bay barn displays purlins carried on partition walls, alongside an early 19th-century king-post truss to the north. The stable's interior features reset early/mid 18th-century chamfered beams and king-post trusses.