Stable Block And Wall And Former Laundry At Fornham Park

TL86NW 410/1/10003 27-JUL-00

FORNHAM ST GENEVIEVE Stableblock, wall and former Laundry at Fornham Park

GV II

Stableblock, wall and former laundry. c.1785. By James Wyatt for Sir Charles Kent. Gault brick with parapeted hipped slate roofs and gault brick ridge stacks. U plan, main range 2 storeys, wings mainly single storey. Symmetrical facade facing stable court, a 7-window range at first floor of 4/8 sashes with central loading doorway above another ground floor doorway. Either side of this an 8/12 sash either side a door with 8-pane overlight. Turning the corner a 4/8 sash either end over a door to left and C20 window to right. On the left the single-storey wing has 3 windows (two 8/12 sashes, one damaged, and a damaged casement), a door with 8-pane overlight and a pair of carriage doors. The right hand wing has C20 door and window and the continuous run of carriage doors has been infilled with C20 brick. Rear is mainly blank. INTERIOR. Some elements of former stalls survive. Linked to the left end by a gault brick wall is the former Laundry in gault and red brick with hipped slate roof and gault brick end stacks. 2 storeys. 3/6 and 6/6 sashes with tripartite sash high in the wall facing rear (park). This lights the full-height former laundry room. HISTORY. These buildings are part of the service buildings for Fornham House which was designed by Wyatt and which was demolished c.1951. Wyatt's drawings for the house are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and in the Wyatt Album at the Metropolitan Museum , New York. Forms part of a significant group of buildings at Fornham Park.

Listing NGR: TL8400368394