Laundry, knife house, stables and gateway about one metre north east of Bockleton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House, store. 6 related planning applications.
Laundry, knife house, stables and gateway about one metre north east of Bockleton Hall
- WRENN ID
- north-dormer-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House, store
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This late 19th-century laundry, knife house, stables, and gateway was designed by Henry Curzon for Arabella Prescott and stands about one metre north east of Bockleton Hall. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring hipped and half-hipped plain tiled roofs with overhanging eaves and decorative ridge tiles.
The layout is roughly U-shaped, with the laundry adjoined to the stable yard to the south-west. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, including dormers, and a moulded eaves cornice. Windows are of a chamfered mullioned design.
The laundry has a T-plan layout, including a large chimney and brick ridge stack at the junction of two ranges. The main south elevation has three ground floor mullioned and transomed windows, and a central hipped-roofed, tile-hung half-dormer with an oriel window of three lights and a coved base. The main entrance to the left has a ledged and battened door with a transom light. A rear wing served as the original washroom and retains its long louvred roof vent. The Knife House is adjacent to the east end, featuring a south elevation with two shuttered windows, two doors, three loopholes and a door at the east end.
The stables include a main north range with a projecting coach house wing featuring a clock tower at its eastern end. The coach house wing has an open base with stepped brickwork arches and a round-arched loft door constructed of cogged brickwork with a hoodmould and double doors with ornate strap hinges. The clock tower is corbelled out from the gable apex and forms a square turret with a south clock face, and a pyramidal roof with swept overhanging eaves and a finial. The main north range extends to form a covered walkway supported on two cast iron posts. Windows appear as a two-light, a single-light, a three-light on the ground floor, and three hipped-roofed, tile-hung dormers with two-light casements. There are also three doors. The west side of the yard, adjoining the laundry, has a three-light and two-light ground floor window, two small dormers with louvred openings, and two doors. The north range has three two-light ground floor windows, two louvred dormers, and two doors.
The gateway to the yard is flanked by walls approximately four feet high, with ridge coping, extending about two yards to the west and one yard to the east. These walls terminate in square piers approximately six feet high, featuring shallow domical cappings with dentilled decoration, reminiscent of woodwork on the main house.
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