Fisherwick Hall Farmhouse And Attached Former Coach House And Stable Block

This is a former coach house, stables, and associated accommodation, dating to circa 1770. It was originally designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for Lord Donegal, and later remodelled around 1810, likely by John Buonarotti Papworth for Lord Spencer. The building is constructed of red brick with an ashlar plinth, sill bands, and eaves cornice, and has slate roofs with brick ridge and rendered end stacks.

The building follows a roughly Z-shaped plan; the stable range runs north-east/south-west, facing south-east, and is connected to the farmhouse range, which aligns in the same direction, by the coach house range, running north-west/south-east and facing south-west. The coach house and stable ranges enclose a courtyard to the south-west.

The south-east front of the farmhouse is painted white and features two storeys, with a moulded plinth and eaves cornice. It has a 2:2:2 bay arrangement with a central, pedimented break and flanking wings that are slightly lower in height. Slim buttresses are positioned at each end. It contains glazing bar sashes with raised keystones and sill bands, the lower band of which is moulded. Some windows date from around 1810 and may have been reused from the now-demolished Fisherwick Hall. The central break features a 20th-century glazed door flanked by windows from circa 1810, all set within blocked semi-circular arches with heavy keystones. Windows from 1810 interrupt the sill band on the ground floor of the right-hand wing, and on the first floor of the right-hand wing. Originally, there were four ground-floor windows on the left-hand wing, three of which are now blocked; a 20th-century door is positioned where the fourth window stood, and the head of the former window remains as an overlight to the door.

The courtyard elevations include the coach house range on the right and the stable range at right angles to the left. The coach house range has a loft band and moulded eaves cornice, with four bays and a central, pedimented break featuring rusticated ashlar to the ground floor and a central carriage entrance. Above the entrance is a blind semi-circular arch containing a lunette, and the pediment contains a roundel with a moulded edge, which formerly housed a clock. Segmental carriage arches flank the central break, springing from an impost band with gauged brick heads. Square loft openings have stone sills and gauged heads. The stable range has a moulded eaves cornice and ten bays; blocked semi-circular ground floor arches, springing from an impost band, now contain inserted doors and windows. Square loft windows have gauged heads. The stables and coach house originally served Fisherwick Hall, constructed by Brown between 1766 and 1774 and subsequently demolished around 1810.