Stable At Newland Farm

ARBORFIELD AND NEWLAND

1921/0/10016 Stable at Newland Farm 02-AUG-02

GV II

Stable, dated 1728. English bond brick walls with some burned headers and quoins. Timber-framed roof with clay tiles. Partially weather-boarded to hipped gable ends. L-shaped with main room to front and floored room to rear, all under half-hipped roof.

EXTERIOR: South elevation with central opening of plank stable door with long iron hinges under shallow segmental head. Brick plinth, graduated to fit ground slope, deepest at the east end. Segmental head window openings to each side of door. To left, brick plaque marked T S 1728. East elevation with similar brick work and deep plinth, and weather-boarding to top with plank hayloft door.

INTERIOR: 3 bays to main range. Chamfered and stopped tie beams into brick wall. Queen post roof with struts to the wall plate and clasped purlins. Rafters are pegged at the ridge and project over the wall plate. The purlins meet at intersection of main and rear rooms. Rear room floored with joists and lapped floorboards, and arms for tackle to south and east walls.

An intact and well-built stable, dated 1728, that forms part of a farmstead group of 2 late-C18 barns, one with attached engine house, and an early-C19 cattleshed, with which it has group value (q.v.).