Stable Block 10 Metres To North East Of Barwick House

TF 83 NW BARWICK LITTLE BARWICK 4/9 Stable block 10 metres to north-east of Barwick House. G.V. II Stable block. 1742. English bond, red brick with black brick stretchers and smut pantiled roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays. 2 bay centre, single outer bays and 2 broken forward cart entrance bays with semi-dormer gables. Centre has 4 ground floor sashes with glazing bars under cambered brick arches, 2 boarded doors under segmental rubbed brick arches. 2 first floor boarded loft window openings. Entrance gable bays have ground floor segmental rubbed brick arches with keystones to cart entrances, partly filled in with brick. Boarded doors with rectangular over door lights. 2 brick string courses above arch. Eaves level semi-dormers have single central l'oeil de boeuf windows with round arch surrounds with 4 keystones. Shaped gable above has 2 stone roundels with pedestals, brick coped parapet forming pediment at apex. Outer bays have single ground floor boarded doors. Facade articulated by raised brick end quoins at corners, brick plinth and 3 course moulded brick eaves cornice. South gable has first floor brick blank arch with lower casement and upper brick in-fill, semi-circular arch with brick imposts and keystone. Stone date plaque above in arched niche with "RG 1742" for Robert Glover. Tumbled gable parapet. North gable has similar arch with boarded loft door. Rear has 3 ground floor openings, 8 first floor openings: 6 honeycomb openings, one loft door and one window. Built by Robert Glover, also responsible for Barwick House (q.v.), Carriage block (q.v.) and Ivy farm barn, Stanhoe (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TF8042035911