Stables And Coach House, Old Rectory

HIGHNAM HIGHNAM VILLAGE SO 7819-7919 9/49 Stables and coach house, Old Rectory GV II Stables and coach house. 1852 by H. Woodyer for T. Gambier-Parry. Squared, coursed lias, ashlar dressings, tiled roof; rear slope concrete tiles. Five bays, one room deep, lofted. Single window to right, stone surround, C20 iron frame inside. Two cambered arches, circular column centre, matching responds; stone sett paving to recess behind, boarded door on each return and right end of rear wall, all with rounded jambs: 3-light window to left of rear wall. Two-light window to left of arches, double boarded doors to eaves level beyond, wall continued on left as a buttress to gable. Dated cast-iron rain-water head. Above, large, weatherboarded gable in centre, cambered head to doorway, door missing 1986, weathervane on gable apex: wooden ridge ventilator to right. Interior: loose box on right, 3-stall stable centre, stone-sett floor, troughs, partitions, iron corner hay racks survive, last with boarded chute from floor above, an unusual survival. Harness room and coach house to left. Forms group with Old Rectory (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7971019764