Stables, Dunster Castle

The Stables at Dunster Castle, dating from around 1660, are a notable example of 17th-century architecture. Constructed from red sandstone with hipped slate roofs, the building features an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys high. The front displays a stone chimney stack situated between a row of seven hipped-roof dormer windows. There are six wooden mullion and transom windows with leaded casement lights, and a slated hood on wooden brackets covers the doorway at the left end. A stone mounting block is also present.

The return wing includes two hipped-roof dormer windows and a central plain doorway that breaks the eaves line, topped with a hipped roof. The ground floor features a central wide doorway with a square-headed moulded frame and a plain boarded door, flanked by single mullion and transom windows with leaded casements. The west gable has two casement windows with leaded lights, and there is a staircase turret in the return angle of the building, which contains a modern staircase.

Inside, the front section has nine horse stalls with partitions and heel posts decorated with acorn motifs. The return wing is divided into two stables by a cross wall, with the east end containing eight open stalls, also featuring ornamental heel posts with partitions. All horse stalls are believed to date from the late 17th or early 18th century and are significant examples of their type.