Stables And Mares' Foaling Boxes To East Of Dairy Farm Buildings At Rear Of Former Dairy

The stables and mares' foaling boxes, built in 1917, are located to the east of the dairy farm buildings at the rear of the former dairy. Designed by MacDonald Gill in association with Halsey Ricardo for Sir Ernest Debenham's model dairy farm, the structure features brick and concrete block walls with hipped and gabled roofs covered in diamond set slates.

The stables are arranged around an enclosed rectangular stable yard with canted angles at each corner. The main entry is through the southwest canted angle. On the north side and part of the east and west sides of the yard, there is a range of horse boxes, with a continuous feeding passage between the boxes and the yard wall, accessible at either end and through timber double doors in the northeast and northwest canted angles. Above these angles are shallow vented gables with tumbled brick copings and kneelers. The partition walls between the boxes have vertical board dados.

The range of mares' foaling boxes features a colonnade of ten bays facing south, supported by circular precast concrete columns on simple chamfered concrete bases, with square imposts made of five corbelled tile courses. These support timber bressumers and principal beams of collar tie roof trusses. Three bays of the colonnade have been infilled later with concrete block walls, each containing a large timber framed opening with vertical timber slats. The floors are tiled, and there is a continuous feeding trough at the rear of the range between the inner brick piers and the north wall. The west end of the range is now roofless.