Stables at Alton Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. A Victorian Stable. 5 related planning applications.
Stables at Alton Towers
- WRENN ID
- ancient-tracery-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Stable
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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SK 0643-0743 12/101
FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK Stables at Alton Towers
3/1/67
GV II Former stables. Early C19 with later alterations. Ashlar facade with edged herringbone tooling, to painted brick buildings with plain tile roofs. Four ranges surround a rectangular courtyard with an entrance in the centre of each range; Gothic revival facade to the south west. Two storeys with three storey towers and turrets, crenellated parapet, pseudo-machicolations to the towers and central block; eleven bays with a square tower to each corner and two square turrets flanking the central four-centred carriage arch; pointed windows, mainly lancets, those to first floor of towers are larger and contain Y-tracery, square-headed loops to second floor of towers.
This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register.
Listing NGR: SK0745743563
Detailed Attributes
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