Stables To East Of Sir David Salomons' House

The stables, completed in 1894 by William Barnsley Hughes, are located to the east of Sir David Salomons’ House in Southborough. They were designed as a miniature French chateau of the 16th century. The stables are constructed of red brick with stone dressings. The south-facing entrance is defined by a rusticated brick archway flanked by fluted stone Ionic columns. Screen walls connect to east and west wings; the west wing terminates in an octagonal pavilion with a conical slate roof, while the east wing features a square, ground-floor projection with a balustraded parapet. A north wing forming a coach house faces the entrance across an internal courtyard.

The stables are two stories in height. The ground floor features four round-headed, rusticated archways with double doors and fanlights, flanked by stone giant Ionic pilasters which extend throughout the building's height to support a large modillion eaves cornice. The first floor has paired casement windows between the pilasters, each with two small lights in two tiers separated by a stone transom and mullion. The steeply pitched slate roof is adorned with two brick stacks with double stone cornices and a central stone cupola with a clock face at its base and a weather vane.

The central portion of the north wing is flanked by single recessed bays with gables above. Ground floor doorways are narrow, each flanked by a bay window of two stories and three lights. Above these are rusticated windows, and beyond are lunette windows. Tall brick chimney stacks are present on the outer sides of the gables. The east and west sides of the courtyard have lower elevations and originally housed stables on the ground floor with hay-lofts above, along with tack and harness rooms. These have a red brick facade on a stone base, with one story and a loft. Each end features a central, rusticated four-centre arched stone doorway with double doors and a segmental fanlight; the central doorway is flanked by stone columns and slit windows. Between the central and outer doorways are two rusticated Venetian windows mirroring the doorway design. Stone cornices and parapets are present, and five pedimented dormers are above. A slate roof is crowned by five pointed imitation turrets or finials.

Internally, loose boxes remain in the east wing and partially in the west wing. The walls are panelled below dado level, with complementary light and darker green tiles above. Similar panelling remains on the ground floor ceilings and on doors within the rooms above the coach house. Hay-lofts feature pegged round-arched braced roofs. Original casements remain in all rooms except for the room in the northwest corner of the first floor.