Stable Court Approximately 50 Metres South West Of Adderbury House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Stable court.
Stable Court Approximately 50 Metres South West Of Adderbury House
- WRENN ID
- long-stone-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Stable court
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stable court, located approximately 50 metres southwest of Adderbury House, is likely from 1731, designed by Roger Morris for the Duke of Argyll, with later alterations around 1770, possibly by Sir William Chambers for the Duke of Buccleuch. The building is constructed of ironstone ashlar and features Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. It consists of a single range that has been extended by two wings and is enclosed by a wall and gates.
The stable court is two storeys high, with the three central bays of the main range being rusticated and projecting between quoin strips, topped by a shallow pedimental gable that contains a clock within an oculus. The ground floor has three round arches that house coach-house doors, with small plain-architraved windows above, the middle window having a lowered sill. The plain ashlar flanking sections end at projecting rusticated quoin strips and retain three similar architraved windows on the first floor. The left range also has three architraved openings at ground level, while the right side features mostly 20th-century garage doors. The hipped roof rises behind a solid parapet with a moulded coping.
The later wings, each functioning as a house, form three-window pavilions linked to the main range by lower sections. Each pavilion has a symmetrical front with a central door flanked by 12-pane sash windows, and six-pane sash windows on the first floor. The parapets have moulded cornices that continue around all sides, with similar windows on the end and rear walls. The outer face of the left linking section features a blind arch with a smaller doorway. The pavilions and linking sections are likely from around 1770. The 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.
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