Service Building And Attached Gate Pier To West Of Stable Block

COMPTON VERNEY

SP35SW COMPTON VERNEY 1901-1/6/73 Service building and attached gate 18/03/97 pier to west of stable block

GV II

Also known as: The Butlers House. Service building facing demolished service wing of house. Early C19. Ashlar with coursed dressed stone and brick to rear; hipped slate roofs with stone and brick stacks. PLAN: 3-unit plan with wing attached to north-east angle. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 2-window range to left, single-storey recessed centre with deep pentice and 2-window: single-storey range to right. Top cornice. Range to left has some flat arches to blocked windows replaced by 2-light single-chamfered mullioned windows with concrete dressings and label moulds; one 3-light window to ground floor right. Centre has cast-iron column to pentice; entrance to right of narrow window with 2/4 sash, re-entrant insertion to right and entrance to range to right. Range to right has 2 windows with sills, and flat arches over 12-pane sashes. Left return has two 2-light windows to each floor; right return has 3 high-set windows with 9-pane sashes. Rear of dressed stone; similar window to front and 2 flat-roofed half-dormers with sashes to centre, single-storey hipped wing to right end. Block to angle has entrance to front; 2 windows to right return with sills and flat arches to cross-casements; gate pier attached to end; brick rear and left return walls. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP3104652880