Stables To South Of Colleton Manor

The stables south of Colleton Manor are a stable range dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. They are constructed from coursed and dressed local sedimentary stone and feature a slate roof with later granite coping at the gable ends. The building has a rectangular plan, with doorways located at the center of both the front and back walls; however, the rear doorway is now blocked. At the eastern end, there is an extension that serves as a tack room, and there is likely a cartshed that has been incorporated into the adjoining gamekeeper's cottage.

The stables are two storeys high and have an asymmetrical north front facing the main house. The central doorway contains a late 19th-century plank door, flanked by two 19th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars on the ground floor—one to the left and two to the right. On the first floor, there is a loading door with a late 19th-century plank door to the right, all featuring cement rendered wooden lintels. Slightly set back on the left side is a small slit window on the ground floor, which has a hollow chamfer and a round head with a hoodmould. The west gable end has a large mullion-transom window from the late 19th or early 20th century, with leaded panes. The south elevation has a blocked central doorway and blocked ground floor windows on either side.

Inside, the stables contain five large chamfered cross-beams with step stops, with the end beams being half-beams. The stalls are from the 19th century, and there are large wooden pegs on the front wall and in the tack room. The tack room also features a small Gothic cast-iron fire-grate in the corner. The original three-bay roof is intact, supported by two raised cruck trusses with three ties of threaded purlins. The lower purlin is at wall plate level, with a threaded diagonal ridgepiece and cranked collars that are mortice and tenoned to the principals. The common rafters have been replaced.