Stable Block And Adjoining Cowhouse To North East At Babdown Farm

BEVERSTON A4135 ST 89 SW (south side) 6/25 Stable block and adjoining cowhouse to north-east at Babdown Farm GV II

Stable block and adjoining cowhouse to north east. 1847, built for Robert Stayner Holford, possibly by Lewis Vulliamy. Coursed stone, stone slate roof. Stable of single storey and loft with central gabled loft door reached by straight flight of 14 stone steps, with scattered cambered head openings to each side. To right, 2 plank doors and one small window between, and former probable cart opening to far right under large, shaped stone lintel, now a garage. To left, 2 shallow windows and central longer window. Adjoining on left, small L-shaped cowhouse with 5 doorways linked by gateway of which only piers survive to large barn (q.v.) on west side of farmyard. Part of a complete and largely unaltered contemporary farmyard complex, probably one of several built in the area by Vulliamy, linked by walls (q.v.) and with barn and cowhouses on west and south sides.

Listing NGR: ST8445594498