The Stables

The Stables is a former stable block, coach house, and group of cottages dating from 1868, originally serving Ilsington House. The building was converted into eight residential units around 1984. Constructed primarily of brick with stone dressings, the structure is roofed with slate, featuring a mix of hipped and gabled sections. The layout is organized around a courtyard open to the south.

Numbers 1 and 2 form the east range, mainly single-storeyed with two ledged doors and six sash windows with glazing bars, each under a gauged arch. A two-storey block with a hipped roof is located at the south end of Number 1, featuring plain casements on both floors. Number 3, the north range and original coach house, is now replanned over two floors, with a hipped roof and a central projecting gabled bay containing three large elliptical arched openings, now infilled with timber-framed glazing. Above the central opening is a sundial and a bull's-eye window. Numbers 4 and 5 constitute the west range, two storeys high, with a central projecting gabled bay formerly containing a sack hoist. This bay has two battened doors, one within the bay itself, both under gauged arches, along with five sash windows with glazing bars to the ground floor and six to the first floor. Numbers 6 and 7, originally cottages, are situated at the south end of Numbers 4 and 5, with a gabled projecting wing facing the courtyard, featuring a battened door with a fanlight within a stone, shouldered arched opening. This wing also contains stone mullioned windows with cast iron glazing under a hoodmould on both ground and first floors, alongside a single-light window on each floor. On the south elevation is a ledged door with a fanlight in a stone, shouldered arched opening, and a projecting gabled wing bearing a date plaque, "1868." This wing features a three-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor, similar to those described above, as well as a two-light window on the first floor. Further windows include a two-light and a three-light window on the ground floor and a single-light and two two-light windows on the first floor. Two brick stacks rise from the ridge, each with plinths and oversailing caps.

Number 8, to the west of Numbers 4 and 5, has a projecting bell turret containing a ledged door with a fanlight in a stone, shouldered arched opening on the ground floor, alongside a second date plaque above the door. The lead spire of the turret rises above the eaves, with a bell-cote featuring stone traceried sides. The main range of Number 8 features several stone mullioned windows on the ground floor, similar to those already described, and matching windows on the first floor, however lacking hoodmoulds. A single brick stack is located on the ridge. The overall conversion is considered to be of a high quality.