Stable Block

MOTTISFONT MOTTISFONT ABBEY SU 3227 & SU 3226 11/2 & 12/2 Stable block (Formerly The Stables Flats, 29.5.57 Mottisfont Abbey)

GV II*

Stable Block. "1836 AH" on tablet. Brick, some stone dressings, slate roofs. Around courtyard, 8 bay end with 2 storey centre 4 bays, 8 bay sides again with 2 storey centre 4 bays, other end has walls with gateway. Centre 4 bays have double doors on ground floor and roundheaded sashes with narrow edge panes on 1st floor. Pediment over with stone architrave and clock in oculus. On ridge cupola of dome on 8 columns, and weathervane. Lower bay each side has 2 planked doors with blind arch between. Sides have wide coved canopy which reaches out as far as central pavilion of end. Under are planked doors with 8-pane fanlights and 16-pane sashes beside. Over canopy is raised centre 4 bay block with 12-pane sashes in each bay. From outside entrance front has to end of sides paired pilaster on each corner, with stone entablature. Plinth running across and roundheaded sash in middle. On the inside face, near end, rubbed brick niche, then set back a bay short tall wall to end canopy, ending in pier topped by stone coping and finial. From these piers run lower quadrant walls with stone coping ending in smaller pier surmounted by stone chained bears,

Listing NGR: SU3261827007