Stables And Coach House At Marske Hall

The stables and coach house at Marske Hall were built in 1741 and were designed by Thomas Worsley of Hovingham Hall for John Hutton. This former facility for race horses and carriage horses features a quadrangular plan and is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs.

The building is two storeys high, with the main elevation consisting of three bays, a central bay that projects slightly, and an ashlar plinth. The walling reaches up to the impost level and has ashlar projecting quoins at the ends and the central bay. On the ground floor, there are round-arched openings; the central bay has an open arch with a Gibbs surround, while the others have ashlar architraves with tripartite keystones and a continuous impost band. Some of the recessed ashlar panels have round-arched windows with glazing bars, although some panels have been removed. The first floor features six-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars set in eared ashlar architraves with sill brackets, and there is a cornice band moulded in the central bay. The roof is hipped at both ends and over the central bay, which supports a chamfered rusticated ashlar clock tower with a cornice, topped by a 19th-century cupola with a lead roof and weather-vane. The entrances to the stables are accessed from inside the central archway.

The side returns have seven bays of recessed arcades. Inside the stables, there are round-arched manger recesses. In the courtyard opposite the entrance, there are three round-arched coach houses, with the central one being taller and made of ashlar stonework, along with three first-floor six-pane sash windows in plain ashlar surrounds. The sides feature three evenly sized round-arched coach houses flanked by windows.