Stableblock Attached To Cassey Compton House

The stable block attached to Cassey Compton House dates from the late 17th to early 18th century and forms the west side of the courtyard at the rear of the house. The building features stables constructed from roughly coursed limestone at the rear and gable end, with ashlar stone on the south side. The accommodation block is two storeys high, made from random and coursed limestone, and includes stone stacks. It has double-chamfered, two-light stone-mullioned windows facing the courtyard, and a garage with two 20th-century double garage doors and a loft above at the gable end. Some of the windows have rectangular leaded panes.

The stable block extends to the left and is single storey with a loft, accessible via a plank door at the top of stone steps at the rear. There is a possible reused fireplace, now blocked, to the left of the steps, and 20th-century garage doors to the right. A wing projects forward to the right of the doors, featuring a double-width opening with a timber lintel in the gable end. Below the eaves on the right-hand return, there are two courses of pigeon holes, which were likely supported by wooden brackets that once held a landing.

On the south front, the ground floor was originally lit by five hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cross windows with moulded architraves and sills, although these windows are now blocked below the transoms. Above the windows is a band, and there are five doorways with moulded surrounds, one of which is now blocked. The doorway at the east end has been blocked with a 20th-century two-light wood casement, featuring a dropped keystone within a moulded surround. There is also a blocked double-width opening with a timber lintel to the left, and the upper part of a former cross window with a moulded architrave has been inserted in the blocking. The roof has five gabled dormers, is hipped at the west end, and features axial and gable end stacks with moulded cappings. The interior retains hay racks.