Stables To Danson Park

DANSON PARK 1. 5005 Welling Stables to Danson Park TQ 47 NE 2/8 1.10.53 II* 2. These are contemporary with Danson Park Mansion, circa 1765, and were presumably designed by Sir Robert Taylor. Half-H plan. Portland stone. Stringcourse. Slate roof. The north or main side has a slightly projecting centre, with 3 coach-houses on the ground floor, having flanking pilasters and double doors. Above on the first floor, but at ground level, are 3 large lunette windows of 22 panes each. On the roof is a small octagonal wooden cupola. On each side of the centre projection is a roundheaded doorway, with a semi-circular fanlight and a square window of 12 panes above. The inner face of each half-H wing has 3 windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor, between 2 round-headed doorways with semi-circular fanlights. Their south ends have large round-headed rusticated arches, with lunette windows, in the arches above the stringcourse.

Listing NGR: TQ4721775348