Red Stables

Red Stables is a barn and folly dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed and squared stone in shallow beds, featuring dressed limestone flush quoins and other details, with a corrugated asbestos cement roof. The building has a tall front wall facing the road, which conceals a barn on two levels beneath a lean-to roof. The front includes a screen wall with a crenellated top, a lunette, and a central quatrefoil at the upper level, along with two filled door openings beneath fanlights and a central pair of diagonal plank doors under a fanlight. All openings are framed with flat pilaster surrounds or platbands, and there are impost blocks above the doorways. The left return has a circular pitching eye, while the right return mirrors this, featuring a plank door in a platband surround. The back of the building has an opening accessed by a flight of concrete steps leading to the barn, which consists of seven narrow bays with an arch-braced lean-to structure supported by cruck-like principals and bolted members. This folly, sometimes referred to as the 'hate wall', is believed to have been built to block light from Greenhouse Court, located on the opposite side of the road. At the time of the survey in February 1986, there was significant ivy growth on the right-hand end of the building.