Stable Block And The Court At Pierrepont School

The Stable Block and The Court at Pierrepont School is a stable courtyard and service buildings, now converted into houses, built in 1888 by H. T. Keates of Petersfield. The structure features sandstone at the base with brick dressings, some of which are gauged, and tile hanging on the first floor, topped with plain tiled roofs. The layout is rectangular, surrounding a courtyard, with the main entrance located on the north side.

The building is primarily one storey with attics, although some sections rise to two storeys. A taller clock tower is situated on the west side, alongside an entrance tower on the north. The entrance front showcases a central gabled gateway with a leaded casement window above a pointed arched entrance. The double gates open to the upper part, featuring heart-shaped iron grilles and spiked tops, flanked by three-windowed ranges on either side. A staircase is positioned to the left of the passage, beneath a braced roof over the entrance.

On the court side of the north range, there is a central gable on a coved jetty, with offset stone walls flanking the entrance passage. This side includes three gabled, through-eaves leaded casement dormers, large corbelled stacks to the left of centre, and a ground floor door to the left. The east range displays irregular casement fenestration, three gabled dormers (the left one breaking through the eaves), four ground floor windows, and doors positioned to the right of centre and in the right-hand corner.

The south range is a 20th-century brick addition with metal casement windows. The west range features a central clock tower topped with a square dome on scroll supports, with clock dials on the east and west faces. It has an arched open plinth on a battering base that rises from the roof ridge. The front gable is timber framed, with a small window below and hipped roof dormers breaking through the eaves on either side. There are two windows on the ground floor to the right and one to the left, along with a door under transom lights at the left end. Arched entrances are present at the centre and right, adorned with keystones made of ribbed brick.