Former Stable Block About 70 Metres North Of Highnam Court

HIGHNAM SO 7819-7919 9/39 Former stable block about 70m north of Highnam Court GV II Former stables and coach house, now offices and workshop. 1808 for Sir B.W. Guise. Plain rendered walls, ashlar parapet and cast-iron railings, slate roof. 'U'-plan, square courtyard, semi-circular railings to forecourt. Two storeys. Square ashlar gate piers, plinth, blind arch to each face, moulded cornice, panelled corner blocks with crenellations between: gates missing. Each side railings on stone cap to low brick wall sweep back to wings of stable block. Ends of wings plain. Left side courtyard, ground floor, 6 blind alternating narrow and wide semi-circular arches, plain stone impost blocks: narrow arches contain inset boarded doors, semi-circular cast-iron fanlights; wide arches semi- circular cast-iron windows, stone sills. End opening wide, boarded door. Main cross block paired double, boarded doors with cambered heads each side, 3-light window with cambered head centre, 4- panelled door to right. Right return 4 arches as left, front arch blind; paired double doors on right. First floor plain stone string course, 6 semi-circular arches to wings, 5 to centre block, inset cast-iron windows, except right wing, inset 3-light wooden casements. Crenellated parapet above with moulded string course, hipped roof. Centre of cross wing carried up as turret with clock face, low, pyramid roof behind crenellations, weathervane on apex. Forms group with Highnam Court and church (q.v.). (V.C.H. Gloucestershire, Vol X, 1972; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7926619434