Stable Block Approximately 3 Metres West Of Wynards House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1987. Stable block.
Stable Block Approximately 3 Metres West Of Wynards House
- WRENN ID
- stony-grate-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1987
- Type
- Stable block
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a stable block, originally likely a domestic house, situated approximately 3 metres west of Wynards House. The building has origins in the 16th century, although it was significantly altered and partly rebuilt in the late 19th century. It is constructed from plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with some areas patched and rebuilt using 19th-century brick. The roof is covered in interlocking red tiles.
The building is arranged with a 2-room plan, facing Wynards House to the north-east. The left-hand (south-eastern) room functions as a stable with a tack room, while the right-hand room has been converted into a garage, accessed through an archway at the right end. The upper floors are used as haylofts and stores. The building's original domestic layout is difficult to determine due to subsequent reorganisation.
The front elevation has an irregular 2-window arrangement from the late 19th century, featuring casement windows with glazing bars. A low brick segmental arch forms the head of the ground floor window to the right, and a 17th-century oak 2-light casement (historically unglazed) is present at ground floor level to the left. Three plank doors are situated in the middle, the rightmost leading into the garage. The roof is gable-ended.
The north-western gable end incorporates a wide 20th-century garage entrance and a first-floor 19th-century casement with glazing bars. Two very small, unglazed windows of earlier date are set just above first-floor level on either side of this gable. The left window is 17th-century, featuring a chamfered mullion; the right window is 16th-century, with triangular heads cut from a single piece of oak, although the mullion has subsequently been cut through. Similar windows are found on the rear elevation, along with a ground floor 16th-century oak window with triangular heads and a first-floor 17th-century window lacking its mullions.
Internally, the two rooms are separated by a cob crosswall extending from eaves level into the roof space with timber framing. Within the garage, a half beam spans the building, possibly reused or indicating the position of a former partition. The inner bay contains a 17th-century axial beam with a soffit-chamfered edge and bar-step stops. The stable beams are also 17th-century, soffit-chamfered with straight cut stops. The roof structure includes a 19th-century king post truss and a surviving disused 16th or 17th-century jointed cruck post.
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