Cart Lodge and Stable Range 16 Metres North East of Fryerning Hall

A cart lodge with an attached stable range, dating to the early 17th century and altered in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and red brick in Flemish bond, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The cart lodge has three bays facing southwest, with the central bay extended approximately one metre at the back on the ground floor. A small, single-storey extension is located to the left, and another to the right. The cart lodge has two pairs of vehicle doors, one plain boarded door with a flat brick arch, and a 20th-century fixed light in a gabled dormer. The right-hand extension has two plain boarded doors. The stable block has one pair of vehicle doors, one halved door, and one fixed light; a further halved door is within the left-hand extension. The front of the building is painted brick, with a small area of weatherboarding above the vehicle doors of the cart lodge. Otherwise, the building is clad in red brick.

Inside the cart lodge are jowled corner posts, unjowled intermediate posts, tenoned and ledged binding beams with a single arch brace, and plain joists of vertical section jointed with soffit tenons and diminished haunches. There’s a clapper-purlin roof with heavy hardwood rafters of horizontal sections, with double-pegged collars at each internal truss. An original ladder stair and stair trap lead to the loft in the right front corner. The rear wall was infilled with brick to wall-plate level in the early 19th century, apart from the extended middle bay, which has continuous brickwork. A pigeon loft has been created at the right end of the roof, a typical feature of the early to mid-19th century. Four iron tie-bars are inserted through the wall plates. A broken purlin in the front pitch of the right bay had been supported by a braced timber tower from the floor. Partitions of hardwood weatherboards separate the middle and right bays on the lower storey, with a lightly partitioned upper storey including doorways. The stable block to the left is timber-framed in two bays, with jowled posts, but has been enclosed in brickwork and extended to the left to form three bays. The floor is of blue stable bricks. The building is included for group value.