The Coach House And Adjoining Barn At Haseley Court

GREAT HASELEY LITTLE HASELEY SP60SW 5/29 The Coach House and adjoining barn at Haseley Court

GV II

Barn and stables, now house. C15/C16; part rebuilt as stables C18 and converted C20. Limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roof. 11-bay range. Part one storey plus attics. Front has 6 heavy stepped buttresses to left: 4 dividing the 5-window front of the converted stables with C20 sashes and dormers. Barn to right has a large 4-centre arched doorway with concave and ogee mouldings dying into a chamfer, three 2-light Gothick windows and some surviving slits as well as C20 openings. Right gable wall has slits at 4 levels, an owl hole and a gable parapet. Rear of barn has irregular blocked slits, a door in a chamfered stone arch and 2 Gothick arched windows. 6-window rear of narrower stables is of C18 coursed squared rubble with ashlar quoins and a moulded stone eaves cove and plinth. Door with plain architrave, imposts and double-stepped keyblock is flanked by 3-light casements with keyblocks; 2-light casement at first floor. Gable wall of stables has carriage entrance detailed as rear door with casement above and a gable parapet with fleur de lys finial. Interior: Barn has some curved braces below tie beams but is ceiled. Probably originally an ll-bay barn. (Country Life, Vol. CXXVII, pp.268 and 328; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp. 685-7).

Listing NGR: SP6444200600