Stables And Carriage House 15 Metres To North East Of Polapit Tamar

WERRINGTON SX 38 NW 9/277 Stables and carriage house 15 - metres to north east of Polapit Tamar GV II

Stables, tack room, carriage house and garages. Circa 1866 (dates on rain-water hoppers). Snecked stone and brick, partly slate hung. Rag slate roof with gable and hipped ends. Plan: Carriage house to left with stables in central range, divided with stables for hunters to rear right and tack room to left with gun room to rear. Garages on right with very early pit (1902). The ground level at the back is much lower. Italianate style. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical elevation facing yard. Carriage house on left is slate hung above ground floor and has 2 wide garage doors and diagonally planked door on ground floor and three C19 12-pane sashes on first floor. Lower central range containing stables has central round headed arched door opening flanked by two 2- light windows. Gable end to central projection above which provides top lighting and ventilation for the stables. 2 storey range to right with glazed extension on ground floor and band of six 6-pane windows above with clock in gable end. The back of the building has been treated as the main architectural elevation and impressively rises from the garden which is much lower. Granite dressings and quoins. Arcaded loggia to rear of stable range. To the left the boarded timber frame gable end of the coach house has a row of 6 12-pane windows and to right a square weather boarded timber frame cupola with a pyramidal roof. Interior: Almost complete stalls and loose boxes in stables with finer quality joinery in the stables which were used by the hunters. Brick and cobbled floors. Complete fitting in tack room. White glazed tiles to pit which was constructed in 1902.

Listing NGR: SX3330389353