Stable Block Including Attached Courtyard Entrance Gatepiers And Flanking Walls Approximately 20 Metres East Of Hudscott House

CHITTLEHAMPTON SS 62 SE

4/104 Stable block including attached courtyard entrance gatepiers and flanking walls approximately 20 - metres east of Hudscott House GV II flanking walls approximately 2 metres east of Hudscott Hous II

Stable block and courtyard entrance gatepiers and flanking walls. Early C18. Unrendered stone rubble, but gatepiers, flanking walls and left end of stables are faced in Flemish bond brickwork to form a more imposing entrance front. Slate roof, hipped at left end, gable end to right. Plan: Long rectangular plan stable block incorporating coach-house at left end, with stables to each side of tack room to right. The entrance gatepiers and flanking walls extend at right angles from the front left end of the stable block, connecting it to the Coachman's House (q.v.) on the right, in a unified courtyard range. Stable block has massive segmental-arched entrance to Coach House at front left end. Courtyard front has wide full height plank doors to left of plank door and 6-window range, the 3 windows towards the left end with 2-light small paned and partially louvred casements. C19 stable fittings survive intact with decorative cast iron grilles to the loose boxes. Front courtyard walls sweep down on each side to gatepiers of square section with moulded brick plinths.

Listing NGR: SS6501124804