Stable Entrance, Stable Courtyard And Wall To South Side Of Courtyard At Baynards Park

The stable courtyard, stable entrance, and associated walls at Baynards Park date to circa 1840, commissioned by Thomas Thurlow and built with contributions from Charles Rickman and Benjamin Ferrey. Restoration and conversion work occurred around 1975 and 1987. The stable ranges are constructed of brown and blue banded brick, with hipped, plain tile roofs.

The east range, now part of Stable Cottage, was formerly a coach house and extends from the entrance, featuring blocked archways with 20th-century doors and windows, as well as four gabled dormers. Two ridge stacks are present. The west range has paired gables flanking a central, projecting, flat-roofed addition. The main entrance is distinguished by a 4-centred archway with impost stones, stepped and ridged coping, and two square section, pyramidal capped truncated turrets.

The wall to the west of the entrance forms the side wall of the stable range and continues at a lower level to join the gatehouse in the main courtyard, incorporating an offset with a moulded brick stringcourse, moulded brick coping, square piers flanking a narrow yard entrance, and a 4-centred arched recess from which a former stone horse trough projects. Above the trough is a rectangular opening with a stone-coped gable. This section of the wall was rebuilt after storm damage in 1987. The wall drops down to a section with a gabled section and a blocked 4-centred arched recess above a horse trough.