Stable Block, Stanway House

STANWAY STANWAY VILLAGE SP 0632-0732 13/126 Stable block, Stanway House GV II Stables. 1859-60 by W. Burn for the Earl of Wemyss. Ashlar, stone slates. 'U' plan, 5 x 3 courtyard, 1 1/2 storeys, added rear wing. Front: gables each side, plinth, 3-light mullion and transom window, 2-light mullion over, parapet gables, cross-gablet apex. Yard wall sets forward slightly from each gable, 2-course ridged top, steps up to centre gateway. Wall thickened, pilaster on high base each side, moulded capital, moulded edge to gateway, 4-centred arch, projecting keystone: pediment over. In courtyard, end wall 3 double, boarded doors with cover strips, segmental heads; smaller double, boarded doors each side with rectangular light over, flat stone lintel. Above, 2-light mullion and transom window rising into gabled dormer, parapet gable: parapet gables either end large-doored section, ridge chimneys, moulded caps. Lower roofs each side and to wings: double boarded door centre of each wing, rectangular light over. Leaded-light window each side, flat stone lintel. Above boarded door rising into stone dormer, parapet gable: 2 small, gabled, louvred dormers above. Brick-paved yard, mounting block with 3 stone steps on right. Interior: right wing 5 stalls, with boarded partitions, swept tops; boarded chute in corner, plastered ceiling, moulded cornice. Rear left 2 loose boxes, corner troughs, cast-iron racks over, plastered ceiling. (Lord Neidpath, Stanway House, 1984)

Listing NGR: SP0612032463