Stables,Courtyard Walls And Gate Piers Immediately East Of The Old Rectory

COMBE MARTIN RECTORY ROAD, Combe Martin SS 54 NE 1/156 Stables, courtyard walls and - gate-piers immediately east of the Old Rectory - II Stable and coach house with adjoining courtyard wall and gate-piers. Dated 1846. Local stone rubble. Steeply pitched slate roof with coped gable ends. Plan: overall rectangular on plan. Stabling for 5 horses to the right and an integral coach house to the left with a hay loft over the whole. It faces a courtyard at the rear of the Old Rectory q.v. which is enclosed by a wall adjoining the left-hand corner of the coach house with a carriageway through flanked by gate- piers. Exterior: 2 storeys. The entrance to the stables at the centre with a loft door above in the central gable; C19 plank doors and lintel with date inscribed. Two 2- light ovolo-moulded wooden mullion windows to the right and similar but single-light window to the left of the doorway and the coach house to the extreme left which is timber-framed above with boarded panels with later pigeon holes. C20 garage doors in the place of the original coach house doors. Stone rubble wall adjoining left, enclosing the left side of the stable yard behind the Old Rectory. The gate-piers in the wall are square on plan and have necking mould and caps. Interior of the stables has original low stall partitions, wooden mangers and troughs lined in lead.

Listing NGR: SS5838845874