Former Stables And Motor House At Trevin Towers

Originally stables and a motor house, these buildings have been later converted into living accommodation. The stables date from around 1894 and are in a Vernacular Revival style, while the motor house was constructed before 1921. Together they form an L-shaped range located north of Trevin Towers. The stables run north to south, with the motor house attached to the southeast.

The stables are built with a red brick ground floor, a tile-hung first floor, and a tiled roof featuring a tall brick chimney stack. The building is two storeys high, with six windows. The northern bay likely served as a coach house, while the upper floor originally housed grooms' accommodation and a hayloft to the south. Stabling was located on the ground floor to the south. A projecting gable to the north has a five-light casement window on the first floor and a central doorcase flanked by two small, round-headed casements. Five additional casement windows are present; the southernmost window was adapted from a hoist, likely for the hayloft, and retains its original wooden opening and flat hood supported on brackets. The ground floor windows have cambered heads and transoms, and the southernmost window was probably a doorway originally.

The motor house is a single-storey structure of red brick in stretcher bond, with a hipped tiled roof and a tall brick chimney stack. Facing southwest are two gables: one hipped with a metal finial, and one half-hipped with timber framing to the gablet, supported on sandstone brackets above two double wooden doors. The windows are top-opening pivoting casements. The interior retains original matchboard panelling to the walls and a pit used for automobile maintenance.

The stables' style matches that of Trevin Towers, which was built in 1894. The motor house was constructed before 1921, the year James John Hissey, the original owner of Trevin Towers, died. The estate was sold in 1925, and the buildings were converted into living accommodation, potentially by a nursing home or Brighton University.

These former stables and motor house are notable as a late 19th-century stables and an early 20th-century motor house, and they are historically linked to Trevin Towers.