The Carriage House and The Courtyard

The Carriage House and The Courtyard, dating from around 1770, was designed by Sir William Chambers. It is a former stable block constructed of yellow stock brick with sandstone blocks laid in a brick-like pattern, and has renewed hipped slate roofs. The building follows a half-H shaped plan, with projecting end wings that enclose a cobbled courtyard. Curved screen walls to the east end of the courtyard close it off. It is a single-storey building with an attic storey to the central pavilion on the west side.

The west side features a central, pedimented pavilion topped with an ogee tent-roofed wooden lantern. An arched opening is on each side of the pavilion, with a clock face in the pediment and three attic sash windows. A brick string course runs along the base of the windows. There are three arched casement doors with rusticated brickwork around the door surrounds, and one window flanking each door. Four window ranges are positioned to either side of the central pavilion. Plank doors with transome lights are centrally positioned under each window.

The north and south sides incorporate two coach-house doorways in the centre of each wing, and rusticated elliptical-headed doorways at each end. At the east end of each wing is a square pyramid roof pavilion. The inner face of each pavilion is flanked by rusticated quoins, and features three large windows. A small wooden turret with a tent roof is situated above. Each pavilion is connected by curving brick walls, with central rusticated brick piers and flanking, brick-dressed side entrances.