Stable Range Including Archway And Walls West Immediately North West Of Flete

This is an 1878 stable range, designed by R. Norman Shaw, located immediately northwest of Flete. The range includes an archway and associated walls, forming part of a stable yard. The building is constructed of stone rubble with granite dressings and has a slate hipped roof. It stands on a sloping site, appearing as two storeys at the rear (north). The range encompasses three sides of a small courtyard to the south. An east wing features a slate-hung clock tower with a hipped roof and finial, while the larger west wing contains a groom's house. Hipped dormers are similarly finished with finials. The central section features a chamfered, segmentally arched carriageway at its centre, flanked by coach house doorways with flat granite arches and small leaded-pane windows above. To the west of the stables, a large, moulded four-centred arch is set into a stone rubble stable yard wall, which has moulded granite coping to battlements. A shield and roll moulded string course sits above the arch, with loops on either side. Lower flanking walls are also crenellated. The stable yard walls and carriageway details are likely late 19th century, potentially using reused material from the 1835 period of Flete's remodelling, or contemporary with that earlier work.