Stable Range At Swifts House

This is an 18th-century stable range, part of Swift’s House. It is a long, single-range building constructed with rendered, squared coursed limestone. The roof is hipped and covered with 20th-century tiles, featuring a brick ridge stack on the right-hand side, which incorporates a groom’s cottage. The range has a nine-window facade. Seven stable doors retain moulded wood surrounds and cambered stone heads, set within flat stone arches. Two cast-iron ground-floor windows have small, centre-hung casements with small glazing bars. The groom’s cottage on the right has a panelled and glazed door, flanked by a casement and a sash window, all with cambered stone heads. The first floor has two 18th-century sash windows with small panes and stone flat arches, four openings containing loft doors or latticed doors, two 20th-century windows, and a sash window to the cottage. Stone flat arches are present above all openings. Limestone quins are visible. Inside the stables, recesses exist for cast-iron feeding racks, and some of these racks remain in situ.