Old stable block

SJ 84 SW 6/191

WHITMORE C.P. WHITMORE Old stable block

(formerly listed as Outbuilding at hall)

17/11/6

GV II*

Former stable block. Late C16/early C17 with later additions and alterations. Coursed sandstone rubble on chamfered plinth with moulded string course and integral end stacks; plain tiled roof and wooden cupola.

Two levels; lower for stables, upper for grooms' accommodation; three mullioned windows to first floor, those to left and right of three lights, all with latticed glazing; ground floor with central doorway under massive Tudor-arched lintel, flanked by renewed two-light mullion windows and two single-light windows on each side (all also with latticed glazing); the door itself is nail-studded in imitation of the original door to left-hand gable end; hexagonal round-arched wooden cupola (probably C18 but considerably restored) slightly to left of centre, lead dome and clocks on north and south faces. Scattered mullion and single-light windows to gable ends and rear.

Interior: stabling for nine horses perfectly preserved; round-headed wooden arches with large globular pendants, the arches repeated above the trough on the back wall;, stone flagged and cobbled floor. Access by mid-C20 spiral staircase in south-west corner to first floor; double-purlin roof in three bays with tie beam, collar beam and windbraces; square panelled cross and spine walls supporting mechanism for clock and former loft (floor removed); fireplaces in end walls with plain, massive lintels.

Listing NGR: SJ8103541258