The Kingsettle Stud, About 300 Metres East North East Of Cholderton Park House

SU 2362 24 SW AMPORT CHOLDERTON PARK 4/7 The Kingsettle Stud, about 300 metres east- north-east of Cholderton Park House

G.V. II

Stables complex with coach houses and two attached cottages (qv) c 1900, probably by G.C. Horsley, for H.C. Stephens MP. Red brickwork with stone dressings and unknapped flint panels; plain clay tiled roofs with stone slate base courses and sawn stone ridges; ornamental brick chimney stacks. Single-storey with some lofts and attics; irregular 'U'-plan with the cottages added to north-east and north-west corners. Main block on west side of courtyard, of 7 bays, with gabled 2-bay projection to bay I with overhung bargeboarded gable, irregular flint panel with 2-light stone mullioned windows at loft level; bays 2 to 6 separated by brick and stone piers, with brick plinths, flint panels and 4-light mullioned stone windows bays 2, 3, 5 and 6, plain double doorway bay 4 and small flat-roofed dormer windows over bays 3 and 5; the return face to bay 1 to match with one mullioned window and a stable door: bay 7 has a very large doorway set under a gable at 45?, there being diagonal timber boarding with a 3-light casement in the gable. North range of 4 bays, all in brickwork with brick piers; bays 1 and 3 blank, bays 2 and 4 have pairs of coach doors; tile-hung gable over bay 4 has 6-light oriel window, but is part of NE cottage (qv). Inside, the walls of brickwork with glazed brick dadoes: south room is stable for mares in foal, then in west wing 8 boxes, and tack room with gallery over. Formerly used for breeding Suffolk and Cleveland Bay horses, the building still intact and in use as stabling.

Listing NGR: SP2799846745