Soilwell Farm (former stables circa 45 metres north-west of Soilwell Manor)

This is a former stable building, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century, and subsequently converted into a house with alterations in the late 20th and 21st centuries. The single-storey outbuildings located to the south-east are not included as part of this listing.

The building is constructed from thin-bedded sandstone and has a roof covered in double Roman pantiles. Window and door openings are topped with wooden lintels, some of which have been renewed, and many feature stone drip mouldings similar to those at Soilwell Manor. The windows are late 20th century timber casements. A late 20th century stone chimney stack is also present.

The building is a rectangular, single-depth structure with two and a half storeys. The south-east elevation, which serves as the entrance front, features a central double door flanked by windows. To the left is the entrance door for the house, and a formerly blocked door opening to the right has been partially reopened as a window. Above, a lunette window with an iron grille sits within a corbelled segmental arch, flanked by re-opened window openings. The gabled side elevation has a large ground-floor opening and windows to the first floor and attic. The rear (north-west) elevation has two ground-floor window openings and three at first floor, with a ventilation slit to the ground floor and a single-light window to the first floor on the far right. Two windows are present on the south-west gable.

The entrance door, set beneath a 20th century canopy, leads into a hall with a cobblestone floor and a 20th century staircase with oak treads. A cupboard at the end of the hall has a brick floor and a blocked opening to the left, while to the right is an opened-up kitchen featuring boxed-in roof supports (RSJs) and a combination of re-used and original timbers. Upright posts serve as re-used ceiling beams. A late 20th century chimney breast between the kitchen and living room incorporates a re-used ceiling beam as a bressumer. The first and second floors have been subdivided to provide additional living accommodation, and include RSJs, 20th century and original timbers, with an axial beam to the first floor featuring “run-out stops”. The roof has been raised but retains its principal rafters with collars and through purlins, with pegged timbers displaying carpenter’s marks, hooks, and remnants of machinery.