Stables And Coach House At Marske Hall

NZ 10 SW 1455/9/77 04.02.69

MARSKE MARSKE Stables and Coach-house at Marske Hall

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Former stables for race horses and carriage horses, with coach-house. 1741. Designed by Thomas Worsley, of Hovingham Hall, for John Hutton. Rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roofs. PLAN: quadrangular. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, main elevation 3:1:3 bays. Central bay projects slightly. Ashlar plinth, and walling up to impost level. Ashlar projecting quoins at ends and to central bay. Ground floor: round-arched openings, that in central bay open and with Gibbs surround, the others each with ashlar architrave with tripartite keystone, and continuous impost band, and with recessed ashlar panel with round-arched window with glazing bars, some of the panels having been removed. First floor: 6-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars in eared ashlar architraves with sill brackets. Cornice band, moulded in centre bay. Roof hipped at ends and also over central bay, which supports chamfered rusticated ashlar clock tower with cornice, surmounted by C19 cupola with lead roof and weather-vane. Entrances to stables from inside central archway. Side returns: 7 bays of recessed arcades. INTERIOR: stables have round-arched manger recesses. Inside courtyard, opposite entrance: 3 round-arched coach-houses, the central one taller, in ashlar stonework, and 3 first-floor 6-pane sash windows in plain ashlar surrounds. To sides, 3 even-sized round-arched coach-houses, flanked by windows.

Listing NGR: NZ1032800284