Stable And Coachhouse 100 Metres North East Of Amport House

SU 2944 AMPORT FURZEDOWN LANE

8/4 Stable & Coachouse 100 Metres North East of 8.1.82 Amport House (formerly listed as stable block to North East of Amport House)

GV II

Stable block, with extensions to provide added coachousing and domestic quarters. 1857, by William Burn, and late C19. Yellow brick with stone dressings, & hipped slate roof. The original range was symmetrical, with a central carriage arch, flanked by stables and coachouse on each side, the west side being extended to the later 2-storeyed coachouse and house, forming an L-shaped unit. The external (south) elevation is plain, with 3 small ventilating windows (at each side) below the eaves, the centrepiece having side pilasters (with moulded stone caps) supporting an arch (with architrave moulding) with a key joined to a cornice with a central pediment (to each face); this supports a tall & narrower stone clock tower, with a plain base (with a moulded panel), a clock stage with Tuscan columns outside the chamfered corners, and an entablature capped by a leaded ogee dome, of octagonal plan with wide faces containing projecting oval ventilators. The court- yard elevation (north is irregular but the return 2-storeyed block is symmetrical (east) with a hipped roof having moulded brick eaves, raised in the centre as a pediment, 3 windows above 3 oval arched carriage openings; to its north side is a lower 2-storeyed domestic wing, the north face of which (facing Furzedown Lane) has a hipped slate roof, moulded brick eaves,cambered openings with casements, and a plinth.

Listing NGR: SP2382742586