The Stables At Betchworth House

The Stables at Betchworth House is a stable block built in the mid-18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped slate roof on one range and hipped tiled roofs on the southern range. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the southern block oriented at right angles to both the house and the road. This single-storey section has rusticated angle quoins and a stone-coped parapet.

On the southern block, there is one 20-pane glazing bar sash window beneath a gauged brick head and a six-fielded panel door in a panelled reveal, surrounded by a lugged architrave, under a pulvinated frieze and flat hood, located on each side of a central arched carriageway. The flanking doors also feature blocked fanlights with wooden tracery bars.

The left-hand return front, or west face, originally had two round-headed arched tripartite sash windows on either side of a pedimented entrance, which included lunette windows at the ends, all connected by an impost band and under gauged brick heads. Currently, it has two windows to the left and a blocked lunette to the right. There is an open pediment over a blocked roundel at the centre, with a door of six fielded panels under a fanlight, framed by a lugged architrave and topped with a cornice hood.

On the rear, or north side, there are three stable doors beneath segmental heads and one plank door on the west wing. A single-storey shed, approximately 4 feet high and partly rebuilt in the 20th century, links the stables to the eastern wall, where it connects to the northern stable block.

The northern range features a south side facing the yard, which is single-storey with hipped roof wings flanking a central square pavilion topped with a pyramid roof. There are garage doors to the right and two doors under transoms flanking a central window. The left-hand wing has a central door with flanking windows. An elliptical arch leads through to the centre, with a window above and a weather-vane finial on the roof. The north side includes a loft door in the central pavilion. The eastern wall connecting the blocks is a notable feature of the Village Street.