Former Stables To Goldings

The building is a former stable block, dating from around 1830, with possible elements from an earlier stable structure from around 1700. It has undergone alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries and is now used as local authority offices and a maintenance depot. The construction is primarily yellow brick in a Flemish bond, with a stuccoed front, and hipped roofs covered in Welsh slate. It has a courtyard plan, with the central court accessed through an arched gateway.

The front of the building consists of two pavilions, on the left and right, constructed of stuccoed brick. These pavilions feature two recessed wood casement windows on the first floor, each set in a splayed surround with flat dripmoulds above. There is a moulded stucco eaves band and a castellated stucco parapet, which obscures the hipped Welsh slate roof. The ground floor contains two windows on each pavilion; that on the left pavilion has been lengthened to create a doorway. A central link connects the pavilions and contains two windows with dripmould heads, a stuccoed eaves band, and a castellated parapet. Rising above the central link is a projecting octagonal clock turret with a moulded stucco corbel base, inner and outer clock faces, an octagonal bellcote, and chamfered shouldered openings on a four-pinnacle roof. The roof is covered in lead with a roll hip and an iron weathervane finial.

The outer elevations are of yellow brick, with stucco arcaded architrave surrounds to sash windows on both the ground and first floors. Part of the courtyard has been blocked with later buildings of minimal interest, and the east wing was reconstructed with an asbestos-roofed lean-to in the 1950s. Some original first-floor loft doors remain in place, and the roof structure is of the king post type.

Despite subsequent alterations, the building retains importance as the only significant surviving element associated with the earlier Goldings house, contributing significantly to the setting of the replacement mansion built between 1871 and 1877.