Stable Block South West Of The House

SU 63 SE 4/2

EAST TISTED ROTHERFIELD PARK Stable Block south west of the House

GV II

Stables and coachhouse, now garage and stores. Early and mid C19. Brick and slate. Plain buildings on 3 sides of a courtyard, with a more ornamental treatment of the (outer) east elevation, seen with the west range of the house. A central tower with cupola, above a carriage archway, flanked by wings of 3 bays; this general form can be discerned in a perspective sketch of the original scheme by Joseph Parkinson, but the tower was raised in the late C19, apparently re-using the cupola. East elevation: symmetrical. The tall tower has an octagonal arcaded cupola with an ogee cap, and a crenellated and machicolated parapet,walls of Flemish bond with blue headers, a band (original parapet base?) above 2 small windows with hood moulds (now filled), and a carriage arch of Tudor form, with hood mould and deep splay. Low pitched hipped roof, continuing at a lower level above the other 2 ranges, one with malmstone walls (of the original building?). On each side there are small lancets within deep splays, separated by slender stepped buttresses. Interior: the stalls remain, the large central arch being open to the courtyard but filled at the outer face. The building marks the south end of a group of towers, which dominate the unusual skyline of Rotherfield Park, as seen from the east.