Farm Cottage,The Similar Range Extending To North And The Stable And Archway Joined To The North West Corner,At Hunsdon Stud Farm.

TL 4113 HUNSDON EASTWICK ROAD (east side)

8/17 Farm Cottage, the similar range - extending to N, and the stable and archway joined to the NW corner, at Hunsdon Stud Farm

GV II

Stables, now a cottage and stables, C17 E range, early C19 N range. Red brick with gabled red tiled roofs. W front of E range painted white and S gable end plastered and lined as ashlar. The E half of a courtyard of buildings open to the S, probably the former stables for Hunsdon House before the C19 stable block there was built close to the house. 2 storeys E range has a central doorway, now blocked, flanked by wide, projecting, full height, pilasters. The part to the right is Farm Cottage: the part to the left has a central door flanked by tall cross windows and a central loading door over with a small gable. Farm Cottage has a low 4-panel door with plain surround but arabesque frieze and elaborate early C18 carved brackets supporting a panelled flat hood. 2 small windows on each floor symmetrical about the door. Segmental brick arches and 15 small panes to each casement light. It has a 2-room plan with central stair, rear lateral chimney on left and external gable chimney on right. The single storey C19 N range consists of a 3-centred arched passage next to the corner and a stable with 3 windows and a stable door between the 1st and 2nd windows from the W, where it abuts the former coach-house now Old Laundry House. An historic brick stable yard group of special architectural and historic interest. Part of the group forming the setting of Copthall Farmhouse.

Listing NGR: TL4179213038