Pavilion Feed Room, Childwick Bury Stud

The Pavilion Feed Room, located at Childwick Bury Stud near Harpenden, is a building of circa 1888 constructed for Sir John Blundell Maple, the founder of the stud. It is one of a pair of buildings designed to resemble pavilions; the other is the Tack Room. The feed room is situated parallel to, and close to, the north side and at the east end of the north range within the main stable yard.

It is a brick structure with decorative blind arcading made of timber applied to the external walls. The building has a hipped plain tile roof supporting a lateral timber-framed and louvred lantern with a hipped roof and a brick stack at the east end. The single-story feed room features a brick offset plinth. The south wall has a three-light casement with glazing bars, while the north wall incorporates the entrance doorway to the left and a casement with glazing bars to the right. The timber-framed arcading applied to the facades is similar to that of the Tack Room, comprising plain square posts at the corners and on the sides of each opening, all painted black. Intermediate posts are similar, except their upper halves are semi-circular with turned mouldings, painted white, rising to impost blocks for curved timber braces forming pointed arches, also painted white, under the eaves. Intermediate rails are painted black and run at window sill level. The roof lantern has three louvred panels on each long side and a single panel at each end.

Inside, iron rods tie the lateral walls at wall plate level. A boarded ceiling is applied to the rafters, and there are ceramic tiled troughs for feed preparation.