Stables And Attached Outbuildings Immediately South West Of The Crofts Farmhouse

A stable, outhouse, cart shed, and smithy dating from the mid-18th century, with later alterations. The brick structure, built in a Flemish stretcher bond, has tile roofs and an L-shaped layout. The main stable block is single-story high with an attic, comprising six bays and a gabled wing towards the right. It has a modillioned brick cornice. The entrances are topped by timber lintels, with segmental heads and plank doors. There are also inserted windows, and a gable with a round-headed loft door. Internally, the roof features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a collar truss roof with interrupted tie beams, and trenched purlins. To the left of the stable is a two-bay outhouse with plank door entrances, flanked by two high, shuttered openings and a tie beam truss, with an exposed wall plate. A lower five-bay outhouse is also attached to the left, featuring entrances with heavy door frames, varied doors, cross-walls, and roof trusses with tie beams, curved principals crossing at the apex, and trenched purlins. A rear entrance is present. The cart shed, projecting to the rear, is a five-bay structure with an open front, supported by timber posts on stone pads. It has tie beam and collar trusses with raking struts, supported by brick piers in the rear wall, and a timber-framed gable at the right end. An attached smithy at the left end retains the original hearth and 19th-century bellows.