Stable Block Adjoining Kiddington Hall To North East

This is a stable block, dating to around 1850 and designed by Charles Barry. It adjoins Kiddington Hall to the north-east and has undergone alterations in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of dressed limestone with ashlar dressings, and has hipped slate roofs. It is laid out around a square courtyard, with the south front forming one side of the entrance court to Kiddington Hall.

The building is one storey and a loft in height. The south front has a 2:3:1:3:2 bay arrangement, with projecting wings and a central section. Features include a tooled plinth, end pilaster strips to the wings, a loft cill band, and deeply overhanging eaves. The right-hand wing has small-paned 2-light wooden casements with plain stone architraves, while the left-hand wing has a 4-panelled, half-glazed door. The loft has small, recessed 2-light windows beneath the eaves with chamfered lower reveals. The central section features a round carriage archway with impost bands, a moulded architrave, a raised keystone, a pair of large 3-panelled gates, and a gable with scalloped barge-boards and a pendant finial. Above the archway rises a square wooden clock tower, featuring a clock on each face with panelled spandrels, a moulded cornice, a lead-covered concave pavilion roof with louvred round-arched dormers on each face and a moulded cornice and ogee lead cap with a globe finial and weathervane.

Inside the courtyard, the walls have a plinth carried up as plain architraves around boarded doors with rectangular overlights, and small-paned 2-light casements with plain architraves. The round entrance arch to the south features impost blocks and a keystone. Square stacks with moulded cornices are present on the side ranges (possibly rebuilt). The rear range functions as a coach house, incorporating four pairs of large boarded doors with strap hinges. A continuous eaves overhang is supported by pierced curved cast-iron brackets on stone corbels, with the eaves arched over the carriage entrance, featuring a scalloped barge board and flanking paired brackets.

The east front of the stable block was altered in the late 20th century with the insertion of windows, a door with a porch, and the raising of loft windows to form dormers. Further inserted dormers are present to the courtyard and rear. The interiors have largely been altered to form flats, although some stabling remains in the south-west part of the front range. This section contains two stalls with cast-iron posts featuring globe finials, and beaded flush-panelled doors. The stables are of an unusually severe design for their date.