The Riding Stables

THORNTON DALE HIGH STREET SE 8383 (south side) 14/119 The Riding Stables GV II

Stables and carriage shed with loft over; now riding stables with flat over carriage shed. Early-mid C18 with C20 alteration. Dressed sandstone to front and coursed sandstone rubble to sides and rear, on plinth; painted raised and chamfered quoins; pantile roof. 2-storey, 5-bay front. Central 4-panelled door with radial fanlight with round-arched doorcase of alternately long and short quoins and voussoirs. Two 12-pane sashes with flat arches of painted voussoirs and stone sills to each side. Squat 12- pane windows with central opening lights to first floor, with small C20 inserted windows between end right windows. Cavetto moulded eaves course. Rear: central board door with divided overlight beneath flat arch. Carriage entrance to end left with harr-hung double doors in quoined opening beneath heavy timber lintel. Plank door to left of first floor approached by stone steps. 3 pivoting 6-pane windows with timber lintels to right of centre door, and one to left. Stepped eaves course. Gable end to street: board door with flat arch of voussoirs to first floor approached by stone steps. Squat 12-pane window with timber lintel to right of steps. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. Interior: all stalls, loose boxes and other fittings have survived intact. The Riding Stables were built originally as the stables to The Hall (qv).

Listing NGR: SE8369183072