Stables, North East Of Taynton House And Wall And Wall And Gates Connecting To House

SO 72 SW TAYNTON B4216 (west side)

7/242 Stables, north-east of Taynton House and wall and gates connecting to house 2.10.54 (formerly listed as part of 'Group of three barns to the north of Taynton House')

GV II*

Former oxhouse, now stables; yard wall. Late C17 or early C18. Irregular English bond brickwork, stone slates. Seven-bay range, 2 storeys. Clasping corner pilaster buttresses, bullnose plinth, plain string course at first-floor level: openings generally with elliptical brick arches over. Facade to yard: on left blocked opening, 2 slit air vents, boarded door, upper half glazed, set slightly to left of original opening; 3 slit air vents, blocked doorway. In centre double boarded doors to coach house, timber lintel, brick arch over, flanked pilaster buttresses. To right blocked door, 2-light mullion and transom window with slit air vent each side; later boarded door, 2-light mullion and transom window and blocked door. First floor 6 slit air-vents on left, 3-light casement window with segmental head in centre, pilaster buttresses each side, gable over with stone ball finial to apex. To right 3 slit air vents and two 2-light mullion and transom windows. Right return 3 blocked windows ground floor, 3 blind first floor, with plain string course at eaves level, 2 blocked windows above, and a blind one in apex. Ball missing to finial at this end. Rear wall subdivided into 5 sections by pilaster buttresses. Yard wall on right, plain stone coping: sweeps down to gate pier, square with stone hinge blocks and weathered stone coping. Double wooden gates, 4 rails, brace only to second, double splats to bottom, single to top, shaped tops, form swept outline. Wall in 4 sections stepping up thence to corner where returned to house, each with square brick pier, to which top of wall sweeps up on one side. Interior: plastered coach house in centre, later fireplace rear, wooden stairs to separate plastered room over. Partitions in left may be early alterations: part of loft floor missing. Trusses collar and tie-beam with angle struts, 2 pairs purlins and no ridge. Very early building of some size for cattle, probably used for ploughing, an unusual survival; forms part of important group with contemporary barn and cider house, and farmhouse (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO7225722178