Block K: Stables, Underfall Yard

Block K, stables, 1889, truncated to the west, designed by John Girdlestone, Engineer in Chief to the Docks Committee.

MATERIALS: red Cattybrook brick with a tiled roof.

PLAN: the building stands to the north of the Underfall Yard, forming part of its northern boundary. It is a rectangular block, orientated roughly east-west, with modern extensions adjacent to the south-west end.

EXTERIOR: a two-storey building, obscured on the ground floor of the principal, south-facing elevation by a timber outshut. The right-hand side of the elevation has a doorway and three windows presumed to be to the former stable. These have segmental arched heads and rough brick arches, with cast iron multiple-pane windows. There are three breather windows above, and an inserted opening. To the left is a wider doorway and taking-in door above. The roof is pitched and has louvred ventilation cupolas along the ridge. The east return elevation has a wide doorway to the ground floor and a window above. The north elevation, forming the boundary with the gardens of Nova Scotia Place, is blind, and the west gable has been built upon.

INTERIOR: the north wall of the ground floor retains rendered panels to the rear of the stalls, and some metal tethering rings. There is a vehicle inspection pit at the west end.