2, 3, 5 AND 6, RABY MEWS

This listing covers numbers 2, 3, 5, and 6 Raby Mews, built between 1823 and 1825 by John Pinch the Elder, as part of the Raby Place development. These are two pairs of mews buildings, facing the gardens of Raby Place and sharing house numbers with the main residences. They are primarily built of limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate and double Roman tile roofs. The buildings have double-depth plans, and originally featured coped parapets, cornices, ground floor platbands, and two horizontal moulded panels to the first floor. The original garden fronts included a door to the left of the ground floor and a window to the right in an arched recess. The ground floor street fronts have been altered, with large door openings now mostly containing garage doors, and replacements to some of the original planked doors to the loading bays on the first floors. Number 6 retains a continuous timber lintel above a pair of full-height planked double doors and a wide planked door with a tall eight-pane overlight to the left. The interiors remain uninspected. These buildings combined garden fronts with architectural presence with rear fronts that reflect their original function as stables and coach houses; Pinch’s design for the garden elevations was incorporated into the original leases for the houses.