The Coach House

The Coach House is a late 18th-century coach house and stabling block, likely built for John St Aubyn, the fifth baronet. It has been converted into living accommodation. The building is constructed of coursed faced granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones, voussoirs, lintels, and a moulded cornice incorporating modillions. It has a scantle slate roof with hipped ends, and a brick axial chimney over the left-hand wing. The structure follows a U-shaped, symmetrical plan, featuring a central coach house doorway that projects forward. The right-hand wing originally contained three coach house doorways, possibly inserted later, and formerly served as stabling with fodder storage and staff accommodation on the first floor.

The principal southeast-facing entrance front is originally symmetrical, displaying a two-storey central bay which breaks forward and is topped by an open pediment supported by broad consoles. This pediment incorporates a granite modillion cornice and a round painted clock face within the tympanum. A hexagonal cupola, featuring an elliptically-arched arcade and a pagoda roof with a ball finial, rises directly behind the roof ridge. The windows on this front are tall, with 12-pane hornless sashes. A narrow doorway on the ground floor of the right-hand side appears to be a later alteration.

The courtyard-facing front of the left-hand wing has a doorway in the second bay from the left, while the remaining windows are openings; the third window on the first floor is blind. The right-hand wing’s courtyard front has a narrow doorway on the left side, and three wide, elliptically-arched doorways with double herringbone-planked doors. The first-floor window on the right-hand side is blind. The ends of the wings each feature two ground-floor and two first-floor window openings. Some of these openings are blind or blocked.

The interior has not been inspected. The Coach House is considered a fine example, likely built shortly after the Orangery, and demonstrates the high quality of 18th-century work at Clowance, although the main house’s front was rebuilt after a fire in 1843.