Osborne House, With Attached Railings, And Osborne House Stables Including Osborne Cottage

This is a complex of buildings including a trainer’s house and stables, dating to around 1850 and built for John Osborne. The complex incorporates an earlier range shown on a map of 1787 by J. Chapman. The buildings are constructed primarily from gault brick with slate roofs, along with some red brick and pantile roofs, and feature ornamental ridge and side stacks. The overall style is simplified classical.

The main house, located at the north-east of the site, is three storeys high and has moulded storey bands. It has an L-shaped plan along Moulton Road, with a hipped roof on the left wing and a gabled roof on the right. Each end of the house features a canted bay window with 2/2 sashes, and additional 2/2 sashes are present on the upper floors. A projection in the angle between the wings contains further 2/2 sashes and a front door. The rear facade consists of a three-window range with 3/3 sashes on the first and second floors, 2/2 sashes flanking a wider tripartite sash on the ground floor, with tiers of windows linked vertically by slightly raised brick frames. The interior retains original staircases and doors. A set of elaborate cast-iron railings runs along the front garden.

The stables and staff house are arranged around an irregular yard to the south-west. A single-story linking range of red brick, featuring caged loose boxes and sash windows, represents the earlier range. Adjacent to this is the staff house, a two-story structure with an attic and decorative storey and eaves bands. It has a two-window front, with 1/1 sashes and gabled dormers above. A projecting sashed bay with a pentice roof dominates the ground floor, with a door to the left. A two-story range of loose boxes extends to the right, featuring windows and doors, and a partial third story with a gabled roof. The yard concludes with a single-story range of loose boxes.

The earlier horse yard on the site was significantly rebuilt by John Osborne, a trainer from Middleham. Following his death, his daughter, Eleanor (Nellie), married Tom Chaloner, his head jockey, and continued to train horses at the yard. She is believed to be the first woman trainer, and was later followed by her sons.