High House Stable Court And Curtain Wall Attached At East Of High House

WEST ACRE HIGH HOUSE TF 71 NE 5/53 Stable court and curtain wall attached at east of High House.

G.V. I

Stable court and curtain wall attached to east of High House (q.v.). C.1829 by W.J. Donthorn, architect, for Anthony Hamond. Holkham gault brick facades of high quality detail, red brick interior to court, slated roofs. Rectangular single storey court with 4 2-storey flat roofed angle towers, screen wall to west connecting with High House. Highly abstract Greek Revival style with primitivist Soanic references. Tripartite east range has central rubbed brick arched barrel vaulted carriage entrance. Projecting wooden cornice and pediment with central rubbed brick arch oculus. Slightly recessed wings continue the eaves level string course and parapet. South front has Soanic porch with 2 central and 2 angle Greek Doric antae, entablature, 2 projecting cornices, attic with round headed finials. Antae repeated in interior of porch. Projecting bay on north side with slit windows. Each angle has 2 storey towers, at south-east grooms' dormitory, at south-west Norman servants', forth-west brewery, north-east hay loft. Ground floor has recessed centre with 3 windows divided by brick antae supporting frieze and entablature on same line as that of lateral,ranges. First floor has single narrow pilastered opening. Slightly projecting angle antae have upper level slit with orthodox position above of capital omitted. Stucco cornice, frieze and projecting wooden eaves, broken forward over angles, recessed in centre. Flat roofs. See Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects C-F (1972) pp.83-89 R. O'Donnell "W,J. Donthorn (1799-1859) : Architecture with great hardness and decision in the edges" Archaeological History (JSAH GB) xxi, (1978) pp. 83-94.

Listing NGR: TF7934618152