Stables To Langleybury House (Flats 7 To 10 Inclusive)

TL 00 SE ABBOTS LANGLEY LANGLEYBURY King's Langley

3/54 Stables to 1.9.53 Langleybury House (Flats 7-10 inclusive)

GV II

Stable block to Langleybury House (q.v.), now flats. Dated 1726 on rainwater head. For Sir R. Raymond. Red brick, stone dressings. Hipped tiled roof. 2:3:1:3:2, ends and centre projecting slightly. 2 storeys. Central entrance: 6 panelled double doors, semi-circular fanlight in key blocked brick arch, moulded stone impost blocks, plinth. First floor central round light in square recess with moulded sill, apron and guttae, banded rusticated quoins and stone cornice with raised panel in stone coped parapet. Outer bays have glazing bar sashes, recessed with segmental heads, stone sills, 12 pane and key blocked on ground floor, 9 pane with an extra window in outer bays of link sections. End bays have ground floor blocked arches with key blocks, impost blocks, first floor sashes. Continuous plat band to parapet and projecting piers at ends. C19 clock turret and bell cupola on ridge to centre. Brick base with recessed panels to clock with scrolled diagonal buttresses, cornice to octagonal Doric bell stage weathervane finial to cupola. 2 bay returns with pilaster strips. To rear ground floor central entrance with a segmental head. Outer double doors. First floor: 9 pane sashes, tripartite flanking centre bays. Close eaves. Inserted stacks. Interior: right half retains C19 stalls and mangers with iron ball finials to timber posts. The stable block faces Langleybury House across an entrance court. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0772400158