Stables, Coach Houses, Motor House And Canopies, Stablehands Accommodation, Central Fountain, Front Walls And Two Sets Of Gates And Gatepiers

The stables, coach houses, motor house, canopies, stablehand’s accommodation, central fountain, front walls, and gates and gatepiers date from 1888 and were possibly designed by Henry Woodyer. They are constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, some timber framing, and have plain tiled roofs with coped verges and moulded kneelers.

The buildings enclose an outer and an inner yard. The northeast range of the outer yard comprises single-story stables with a loft above, featuring six two-light cross windows with four-centred heads and chamfered surrounds, running under a continuous string course. A central plank door, set within a chamfered surround with a four-centred head, provides access, alongside a plank door on the upper floor to the left, and a single-bay lean-to at the right with a large four-centred archway.

The southeast range of the outer yard originally housed stable hands but is now two cottages. It includes a central segmental-headed archway surmounted by a timber-framed gable resting on corbels and containing a four-light casement window. To the left is a two-story, two-bay cottage with a projecting gabled wing, two and three-light casement windows, and a stone dormer. To the right is a single-story and attic cottage of three bays with single and two-light casement windows, and a central projecting tower.

The southwest wing, formerly coach houses and now a house, is timber-framed on a rubble plinth, with an overhanging, bracketed roof and four gabled, barge-boarded dormers. It incorporates outer double plank doors and an inner single door, along with small upper windows.

The outer yard is enclosed by low rubble walls, with an off-centre pair of large square ashlar piers surmounted by ironwork and a lantern. A low ashlar wall encloses a quatrefoil basin in the centre of the yard, which contains a fountain with a twisted column, foliate capital, sundial, and finial.

The inner yard’s north range is similar to the outer yard but extends seven bays, featuring brick dormers and three-light casement windows. The southwest range of coach houses has six arched entries on its outer (southeast facing) lower side, and seven slit vents above; the inner side has four double coach-house doors. A motor house, likely added around the early 20th century, is located to the left of the coach house on the front, with large double doors and a glazed two-bay canopy on the right; this canopy has an iron-framed, glazed three-span hipped roof and an advanced coach-house. The southwest side of the yard is enclosed by coped rubble with an arched fountain built into the centre.