Stables And Attached Front Walls

LANHYDROCK LANHYDROCK PARK SX 06 SE 9/83 Stables and attached front walls - GV II

Stables with attached front walls ; now offices. 1905, with C20 alterations. Snecked slatestone rubble with granite dressings and quoins. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends ; the central gable raised coped verges with scrolled kneelers, an weathervane. Stacks with rubble shafts to gable ends and in axial positions. Walls in stone rubble granite coping and granite piers. Plan: The stables form an overall U-plan; there is a central block, with lower wing to right and left, the wings returned at the sides to enclose the sides of the stable yard. The walls extend from the wings and enclose the front of the yard with a central wide gateway and pedestrian gateway to right. Exterior: The central block is 2-storey, symmetrical ; ground and first floor have 4- pane sash to right and left, central C20 plank door with overlight. Clock in the gable with granite surround. All windows with granite lintels. Single storey wing to right and left, each with three 6-pane sashes. The returns have central plank door with overlight, 6-pane sash to right and left. Each front gable end of the wings have a 6-pane sash with a breather over. The front walls are about 1½ metres high, with chamfered granite coping ; central pair of square plan granite ashlar piers on plinth with pyramidal caps. C20 wooden and wrought iron gates. Similar single gate to right. At the right side, the wing extends to rear beyond the main range, and has 10 similar 6-pane sashes and C20 door. The left side has six 6-pane sashes. At the rear the central block has two 4-pane sashes at first floor; all other windows are C20 casements and there is a single storey lean-to along the rear. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX0886264067