Coach Houses And Stables

ST 89 NW OWLPEN OWLPEN PARK

6/351 Coach houses and stables

II

Former coach house, now 2 houses, and stables with cart shed range. Mid C19. Coursed and dressed limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Two-storey coach house forming north side of courtyard, linked to stables on east side by gateway; cartshed range on south side. Large round archway to coach house is off- centre with full gable above; mullioned and transomed casement above archway. Three half gables to left with stone mullioned cross windows; mullioned and transomed casements below either side of segmental arched doorway. Further eaves level dormer to right with hipped roof. Tall eaves-mounted chimneys. Gatehouse at north east corner of yard set at 45° has large pointed archway with round arched window arcade above. Crenellated parapets; 2 flanking turrets, one with octagonal top formerly having domed cupola, now removed. Stable range has loft to central section, symmetrical mullioned and transomed fenestration either side of central segmental arched doorway with similar loft doorway above in hipped half-dormer. Pointed arched doorways to north-facing cartshed range. Interiors not inspected. An unusually good coach house and stable range. Built to serve the contemporary Owlpen House, demolished in 1955 after a fire. (Photographs of coach house, stables and Owlpen House in NMR. D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST8079798120