Stables To Garboldisham Manor Including Laundry Cottage And Coachman'S House

Stables, a laundry cottage, and a coachman's house, dating to 1869-73 and designed by G.G. Scott (junior), forming part of Garboldisham Manor. The stables are now partly used as domestic accommodation. The building is constructed of banded gault and red brick with plain tiled roofs, arranged in an E-shaped plan.

The stables feature a single story with dormers. A central semi-circular entrance arch made of gauged brick is flanked by pilastered architraves. The architrave rises through the eaves line into a shouldered sloping gable containing a tall casement window beneath a rebated semi-circular hood, all within a rectangular pilastered architrave terminating in a parapet below a pediment. Decorative brick details are moulded. Four bays are located to the right and left, each with moulded string courses at eaves level, above and below timber cross casements. The gabled roof has a hipped dormer in each bay, each with a timber cross casement and weatherboarded sides.

A timber bell tower consists of a weatherboarded square first stage, with a clock face in a square surround, under a projecting pediment below an octagonal open cupola. The cupola’s faces are divided by a turned baluster and topped with a domical roof and weathervane.

Gabled return wings, each of four bays, include three sashes under gauged skewback arches, and a round-arched door within a gauged square architrave. The ends are shaped with obelisks as finials. One panelled stack is present in each cross wing; the eastern stack is truncated.

The details of the rear elevations are similar, incorporating the Laundry Cottage and the Coachman’s House. The Coachman’s House has been colourwashed and has altered window openings.