Stable Block And Walled Gardens About 50 Metres West Of Rectory Park

HORSMONDEN RECTORY PARK ROAD TQ 73 NW (north side) 4/93 Stable block and walled gardens about 50 metres west of Rectory Park GV II

Stables and walled gardens. Mid C18 with mid C19 clock turret. Red and blue brick with plain tiled roof. Stables with 2 storey central block and single storey flanking wings, all with plinth and brick dentil eaves to hipped roofs, that to left extended at lower level. Clock turret added to centre with open belfry and ornamentally tiled roof, the weather vane dated WMSM 1856 (William Marriot Smith- Marriot). Two segmentally headed glazing bar sashes to each floor of central block with central boarded door with semi-circular fanlight, and 2 glazing bar sashes to each wing with similar boarded doors and doorways, all openings with gauged brick heads. Left end extension with stack to rear left and glazing bar sash to return elevation. Interior: brick and granite sett floors and stalls and loose box frames remain, as do curious recesses in right hand rear wall used either as storage or as part of a special feeding system. Inner wall face in English bond brickwork, as is rear wall and parts of the attached walls to the walled gardens. These are some 7 to 8 feet in height with occasional openings and enclosing two courts,an irregularly shaped area about 30 by 15 metres, and a rectangular area about 50 by 40 metres

Listing NGR: TQ7032038807