Stable Block And The Court At Pierrepont School

SU 84SE FRENSHAM C.P. FRENSHAM ROAD

4/38 Stable Block and The Court at Pierrepont School

GV II

Stable courtyard and Service buildings, now houses. 1888 by H. T. Keates of Petersfield, altered and extended in C20. Sandstone below with brick dressings, some gauged, tile hung on first floor with plain tiled roofs. Rectangular plan around courtyard, main entrance to north side. One storey and attics, some parts two storeys,with taller clock tower on west side and entrance tower to north. Entrance front:- Central gabled gateway with leaded casement window over pointed arched entrance. Doubled gates, open to upper part with heart-shaped iron grilles and spiked tops. Three-windowed ranges either side. Staircase to left hand side of passage; braced roof over entrance. Court side of North Range:- Central gable on coved jetty with offset stone walls below flanking entrance passage. Three gabled, through-eaves, leaded casement dormers on either side, large corbelled stacks to left of centre and left end. Door to centre of ground floor left. East range:- Irregular casement fenestration, three gabled dormers, that to left breaking through eaves. Four windows to ground floor; doors to right of centre and in right hand corner. South range:- C20 brick range with metal casement windows. West range:- Central Clock Tower with square, crowning dome on scroll supports, clock dial on east and west faces. Arched open plinth, square with chamfered corners, on battering base rising from roof ridge. Timber framed gable to front on cove with small window below to centre hipped roof dormers breaking through the eaves to either side. Two windows to ground floor right, one to ground floor left. Door under transome lights to left end. Arched entrances to centre and right under keystones of ribbed brick.

A. SAINT: RICHARD NORMAN SHAW (1977) p.415.

Listing NGR: SU8511642107