Stables north east of Bredfield House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Stables.
Stables north east of Bredfield House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-outpost-plover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Stables
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables, dating to the 17th century, are constructed of red brick, primarily in English bond, with a plain tile roof. They are situated northeast of Bredfield House.
The east front is red brick, incorporating blue brick diapering. It features 19th-century window and door openings. On the ground floor, the right side has a blocked doorway with a cambered splayed head containing a 20th-century two-light window above. Flanking this are two-light windows with cambered splayed heads. A similar arrangement of doorway and windows was originally present on the left, but these are now blocked. Two oval pitching eyes with grilles are positioned centrally at the top of the wall. Two hipped dormer loft doors with clapboarded sides are visible on the right-hand side of the roof. The right gable end displays diapered diamond patterns, a cambered-headed stable door on the left, and a rectangular loft door with an ashlar sill above. A band of three bricks is located below the shaped gable, which has brick kneelers and concave sides, divided from the arched apex by a further band of three bricks. A cross-shaped breather is at the apex. The left-hand gable end is similar, but lacks diapering and has only one window opening to the ground floor on the right.
The rear elevation features two ground floor doorways on the right side and a rectangular loft door on the first floor, also on the right. Scarred brickwork indicates a lower original height for this loft door.
The interior is divided into a cow byre, harness room, and stables. The stables at the south end have stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and axial beams with cyma stops. A small harness room at the centre has matchboarded walls. The byre at the north end features four chamfered cross-beams with ogee stops. The roof structure is a fine example of 17th-century carpentry, featuring five main bays with intermediate trusses between the main queen-post trusses. The queen-posts are jowled, with curved braces to cambered collars and curved braces to square-set purlins. The purlins are staggered and tenoned to intermediate principal rafters, which also have collars and an upper tier of staggered tenoned purlins clasped between the common rafters and collars above the queen-post trusses. Common rafter couples are halved at their apexes. The roof remains largely intact, although the queen-post truss at the south end has been removed.
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