Stables To Westbury House

SU 62 SE EAST MEON WESTBURY

2/6 Stables to Westbury House

16.3.54 II

Stables and coachouses. C18, with mid C19 minor changes and rear extensions. Red brickwork in Flemish bond, with blue headers to north and south walls and flemish Garden Wall bond at the rear; plinth, 1st floor bands to end blocks, brick dentil eaves, cambered arches to windows. Tile roof. Symmetrical west front, with central blind arcade (masking a hay-loft above stables) of seven bays, the centre with a deep recess containing doors at each side (to stables) and in the centre (to tackroom), and a high door to the loft. Each bay has a window, and a Diocletian light at the top of the 2nd and 6th bay. At each side there is a tall square tower, appearing as two but masking three storeys, with a ground- floor carriage arch flanked by blank openings (altered on the south side) the north tower has a clock face, and the pyramid roof has at the rear a leaded dormer, which contains the bell (the mechanism from bell to clock extending across the top floor, within a boarded case). At the rear there are small C19 extensions, and added chimneys.