Stable Block 90 Metres North East Of Penton Lodge

3347 PENTON MEWSEY PENTON MEWSEY

8/25 Stable block 90 metres North East of Penton Lodge. II

House, flats and chapel, converted from stable and coachhouse. 1865. Brick, with a slate roof. A narrow single-storeyed range of stables on either side of a centrepiece, with at each end 2-storeyed cross-wings. Walls of red brickwork in Flemish bond, brick-dentilled eaves, carried round gables of pediment form, 1st floor band to the wings with alternating pattern of dentils, rubbed cambered arches, rubbed round arches in recesses to the upper openings in the wing gables, stone cills, plinth. The centrepiece of the stable block has on its south elevation a tall wide cambered arch with a keystone, flanked by rusticated pilasters, and is surmounted by a clocktower, comprising a square panelled frame, brackets to a wide eaves, and a leaded spire. The west elevation of the west wing is nearly symmetrical, with a gabled centrepiece having 3 arched windows (narrow at each side) above a carriage opening flanked by narrow arched lights, and 2 carriage openings at each side, these entrances now containing varied openings of the converted residential unit. The east wing has less regular details, again adapted for residential use. The north elevation, to the roadway has no windows on the ground-floor, with lesser projection of the wings and greater projection of the centre.

Listing NGR: SU3346947771