Stable Block At Westwood Hall Farm

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SJ95NE WESTWOOD PARK AVENUE 611-1/1/139 (West side) 10/03/75 Stable block at Westwood Hall Farm

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Stable block. c1780. Brick with plain-tiled and slate roofs. Symmetrically planned with 3-bay central block linked by curtain wall (with later lean-to stabling) to outer single-bay pavilions. EXTERIOR: one and two storeys central range has advanced pedimented central gable, with full-height relieving arch over central round-arched doorway. Circular pitching-eye above, with stone dressings and keystones. Brick string course pediments the gable. Inserted window alongside doorway. Single round-arched doorways in outer bays, and simple brick circular pitching-eyes above. Inserted doors and windows each side. Outer pavilions have round-arched doorways flanking windows with segmental brick heads, round-arched upper window in left-hand pavilion, inserted window to right. Round-headed windows in rear elevation, which is articulated as 1-1-2-1-2-1-1 bays, mirroring the main elevation with pediment over central bay of principal building. INTERIOR: not inspected. The stables form part of a courtyard farm complex, apparently laid out and planned in the later C18 incoporating traces of earlier buildings, and extended subsequently by the insertion of buildings in the central space.

Listing NGR: SJ9662756220