Stables And Other Ancillary Buildings Immediately North West Of Gramercy Hall School

BRIXHAM

SX9055 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers 1946-1/6/47 (South side (off)) 18/10/49 Stables and other ancillary buildings immediately NW of Gramercy Hall School (Formerly Listed as: BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers Lupton House (School) inc stable range)

GV II

Stables, coach house, brew house, kennels and other outbuildings. Probably c1772. Altered and enlarged by George Wightwick c1843. Solid walls of stone rubble, part-painted, part-rendered. Slated roofs, some hipped chimneys with cornices, as on the house. Plan: a long range of stables with coach house at right-hand end. Attached to latter at right-angles is what is believed to have been a brew house, now the school gymnasium. Standing forward in the front curtilage at either end is a small house; these appear to have been linked originally by a range since demolished. The right-hand house is linked to the stables and brew house, probably part of the coach house. The left-hand house and the left end of the stables are abutted by a courtyard of what are reported to have been kennels. Exterior: single-storeyed; the houses with garrets. Stables and coach house have 11-bay front. Round-arched main doorway with plain imposts, archivolt and keystone; top entablature and blocking-course. 3 segmental-headed windows with keystones at either side; 2-light wood casements with transom-lights, those to right with 3 panes per light. At right-hand end 2 round-arched openings to coach house; plain imposts, archivolt and keystone, except that right-hand opening mutilated. Left-hand obscured by added lean-to. The houses have 3-bay fronts, the bays flanked and separated by Doric pilasters supporting an entablature with triangular pediment. Centre window with blank panel over; semicircular window in pediment. Right-hand house has 2 blocked windows and a plank door in right side wall. Left-hand house, ruinous at time of survey, has had window converted into a door and windows inserted into the side-bays. Brew house has 2 windows and 2 doorways (1 converted into a window) in the side wall facing the house; original windows have small-paned glazing, that to right with 6-paned sashes. Kennels have 2 ruined buildings flanking the entrance from the stable yard, and 2 more flanking the entrance on the opposing side. To the north-east is an arc of 8 cells with paired doorways having arches of red brick; C20 flat concrete roof. Large granite trough in front of them. To the south-west is an open space walled on the outside which contains the footings of a small square building. (The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd edition): 1989-: 883).

Listing NGR: SX9022855044