Offices,Stableblock And Coach Houses And Enclosing Walls Immediately North Of Leyhill

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1/138 Offices, Stableblock and Coach- houses and Enclosing Walls G.V. immediately north of Leyhill II

Offices, stables and coachhouses and enclosing walls; now workshops and a Prison Service Museum. Circa 1850 by S.S. Teulon. The stables, coachhouses and workshops enclose three sides of a square yard. Coursed rubble with Bath stone dressings; plain and fish scale tiled roofs. West range: single storey range of 6 stables, now workshops; plank doors and single and 2-light casement windows; projecting pentice over setted walkway. North range: in the centre is a 2 storey, 3 bay groom's quarters with 3 gables, three 3-light cross windows and 3 plank doors in chamfered surrounds and under relieving arches; to the left is a single storey 2 bay stable range; to the right are 3 coach-houses with chamfered, depressed arch surrounds. East range: to the north are 3 coach- houses as on the north range; in the centre is an entrance tower with a 4-centred arch carriageway, gables to all 4 sides above and a central clock tower with a tiled base and a louvred lantern surmounted by an ogee dome; to the south'is a single storey range with three 2-light casement windows. A tall rubble quadrant wall then joins the east range to a 4-centred archway which has, on the south side, a further quadrant wall with a single storey dairy built against it, which returns to the north east corner of the house. Across the centre of the yard is a freestanding range of buildings. In the centre is an octagonal game larder: 2-light casement windows to each elevation; plank door under a Y-tracery window; octagonal louvred lantern and plain tiled roof. Flanking the larder are single storey workshop buildings with hipped roofs and to the west is a former brewhouse or gasworks: square 2 storey tower at the west end, hipped roof and large octagonal louvred lantern, three 2-light casement windows, clustered octagonal brick stacks; 2 storey east range which ends in a gable cross wing. (The Builder, 29.10.1853 and 19.11.1853).

Listing NGR: ST6935792617