Stable Court Approximately 50 Metres South West Of Adderbury House

SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (East side) Adderbury East 7/116 Stable court approx. 50m SW of 08/12/55 Adderbury House (Formerly listed as Adderbury House with outbuildings and gateway)

GV II Stable court. Probably 1731 by Roger Morris for Duke of Argyll, and c.1770, possibly by sir William Chambers for Duke of Buccleuch. Ironstone ashlar; Stonesfieid-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. Single range, extended by 2 wings and enclosed by a wall and gates. 2 storeys. 3 central bays of main range are rusticated and break forward between projecting quoin strips and below a shallow pedimental gable containing clock within an oculus; ground floor has 3 round arches containing coach-house doors, above which are small plain-architraved windows, the middle window with a lowered sill. Plain ashlar flanking sections terminating at projecting rusticated quoin strips each retain 3 similar architraved windows at first floor, and the left range also has 3 architraved openings at ground floor; ground floor to right is mostly C20 garage doors. Hipped roof rises behind a solid parapet with a moulded coping. Later wings, each a house, form 3-window pavilions linked to main range by lower sections, and each has a symmetrical front with a central door between 12-pane sashes, and has 6 pane sashes at first floor; parapets have moulded cornices continued round all sides, and end and rear walls have similar windows. Outer face of left linking section has a blind arch containing a smaller doorway. Pavilions and linking sections are probably c.1770. Enclosing wall, approximately 2 metres high, projects forward from the wings and returns to central rusticated gatepiers capped by moulded entablatures and rusticated ball finials, which may be part of the earlier work. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp416-418; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, pp7-9; Country life 1949: Vol 105; pp30-32)

Listing NGR: SP4758135602