Ranges Of Horse Boxes In Main Yard, Childwick Bury Stud

In the entry for item 5/10013 the address shall be amended to read:-

TL11SW ST MICHAEL HARPENDEN ROAD (west side), Childwick

5/10013 Ranges of boxes in Main Yard Childwick Bury Stud ------------------------------------

ST MICHAEL TL11SW HARPENDEN ROAD, Childwick 270-1/5/10013 (East side) Ranges of Horse Boxes in Main Yard, Childwick Bury Stud

GV II

Ranges of stables on the north and east sides sides of the Main Yard of Childwick Bury Stud. Circa 1888. Possibly by Col.R.W. Edis FRIBA. For Sir John Blundell Maple, founder of the stud. Ranges mainly timber frame with weather boarding cladding, painted on front and tarred at rear, on brick plinths; otherwise red brick; plain tile roofs, hipped at the ends of the ranges, with patent ceramic ventilating ridge tiles; a taller cross gable in the centre of each range. Plan: L plan of two long ranges facing onto the yard, both ranges comprising a total of 34 numbered horse boxes including four wider foaling boxes; the central box on the east side projects to rear; adjoining the south end of the east range and extending to the east a short range in brick containing feed and tack rooms. Exterior: each box has a stable door with cast iron strap hinges and to the side of each door a vertical slatted vent panel; above the central box in each range the cross gable facing the yard has weatherboard cladding, barge boards with scalloped and pierced boards under the verges, and knopped apex finials; in the cross gable in the north range a clock; at the rear of the east range the cross-gabled, projecting end of the central box, built of brick, has widely projecting gable verges braced by a collar tie supported at each end on a shaped bracket with the feet of the verges supported on similar brackets, in the centre of the wall a large doorway with segmental brick-arched head and in the gable a small oculus with side-hung sash. Interiors: between the boxes vertical board partitions covered in part by metal strapping, brick paved floors laid to drains, open roof with queen post trusses, in each box to rear two original corner mangers faced in vertical boarding and zinc lined. Ranges are complete and unaltered examples of late C19 stables and part of important group of stud farm buildings facing the Main Yard which includes the Stud House, formerly Childwick Hall [qv] and the Stallion Boxes, Trophy Room, and Covering Yard (qv].

Listing NGR: TL1383611412