Luton Hoo Stables, Including Frontage Range And Rear Courtyard Buildings, Incorporating Stable Master'S House

A stable courtyard dating to around 1760, with alterations and additions from around 1830 and the late 19th century. Designed by Robert Adam, with later work possibly by Smirke. The buildings are colourwashed rendered to the front elevations, with painted and plain brickwork elsewhere, and have hipped roofs covered in Welsh slate. The layout is around a courtyard, with an earlier two-storey frontage range, a two-storey house (now divided into two dwellings) opposite the entrance archway, and late 19th-century single-storey stables, a carriage house, and workshops enclosing the courtyard.

The front (west) elevation is symmetrical, with five bays, with the centre and end bays slightly advanced and topped with pediments. A central carriage entrance is below a bell cupola, above a tripartite semi-circular window. Roman Doric pilasters flank the entrance. There are six-over-six pane sash windows in the three-bay ranges to either side. Pedimented end bays have a recessed blind arch with a first-floor tripartite semi-circular window. A garage door has been inserted into the north end bay.

The east elevation of the courtyard has ground-floor garage doors and eight-over-eight pane sash windows. First-floor windows on both sides match the detailing. Facing the archway of the frontage range is an early 19th-century house designed to reflect the stable block's facade, with colourwashed render. This house is symmetrical, with a pediment above the central three bays, and hip-ended roofs with ridge stacks to the outer bays. Pilasters define the three sections of the facade, and string courses link the window sills. It has a doorway with a three-over-one panel door and a four-pane overlight. Late 19th-century single-storey ranges are located on either side of the house. The north range is L-shaped and contains individual stables, each with doors and high-level eight-over-eight pane sash windows. To the south is a further range of stables and a workshop. At a right angle, forming the southern boundary, is a taller, hipped-roofed carriage house with three double doorways. Some stables retain vertical boarding to the lower walls with green glazed tiling above, and corner mangers.