Stables circa 30 metres east of Elton Hall

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ELTON ELTON HALL Stables c.30 metres east of Elton Hall

GV II*

Stables. Circa 1870 including south-west range of former early C18 stables. Built for 4th Earl of Carysfort. Rock faced and hammer dressed limestone with freestone dressings. Welsh slated roofs. One storey and attics, ranges of stables, coach houses and cottages enclosing and partly enclosing two stable yards. Main entrance archway in north-west range surmounted by a clock tower of two stages.

North-west elevation: Symmetrical with embattled parapet to tower and flanking walls; plain corbelled parapets to gabled end bays; chamfered plinth; two-centred inner and outer arches with brick vault, arch of two chamfered and moulded orders, arms of the fourth Earl of Carysfort and clock in recesses above archway and flanked by two single-light windows with chamfered and hollow-chamfered reveals and moulded label. End bays with ground and first floor stone mullioned casement windows.

Stable yard facades: Boarded stable doors and outer cottage doors with cast iron hinges imprinted 'Charles Collinge Lambeth', and with rectangular fanlights, similar boarded loft doors with gabled parapets and coach house doors shaped to segmental arches. Stable windows, cast iron with large geometric patterned panes. Cottage windows of two and three casement lights with chamfered reveals; facade dormer windows with parapets similar to loft doors and with ball finials.

Interior of stables largely complete and original plan unaltered.

V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p158 Elton Hall Historical Guide

Listing NGR: TL0893392975