Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse

SO 89 SE 5/165 27.6.63

WOMBOURNE C.P. WODEHOUSE LANE (south side) Coach house and stable block at The Wodehouse (Formerly listed as Coach House at the Wodehouse)

GV II*

Coach house and stable block. Early C18 with late C19 alterations and internal remodelling. Red brick; plain tile roofs; C19 brick end stacks with star shaped shafts.

Two storeys with moulded eaves cornice. 1:3:3:3:1 bays, central pedimented break with first floor band, and two gabled crosswings with coped verges and draped vase finials at the corners. Mainly glazing bar sashes with gauged brick segmental arches and raised keys; crosswings each have a ground floor Venetian window and a niche in the gable, two gauged brick segmental carriage arches to central break with boarded doors; the flanking recesses each have a central C19 panelled door with moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and bracketed pediment, and above a segmental arched opening with moulded architrave and raised key, the left hand one is blocked, the right hand one has a part glazed two-leaf door. Central cupola with semi-circular arched openings, ogee shaped dome and dragon weather vane. The inside return of each crossing has a C19 panelled door with rectangular overlight and wedge shaped plaster lintel grooved as voussoirs, and raised key, and first floor keyed oculus.

Interior. Some stable fittings survive including loose boxes and hay racks.

The northern half of the building was converted into a music room in the late C19 probably for T B Shaw-Hellier.

Listing NGR: SO8860193527