Stable And School Room To North West Of The Friends Meeting House

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SD6491 BRIGFLATTS, Marthwaite 162-1/19/379 (West side) 22/12/87 Stable and School Room to north-west of The Friends' Meeting House (Formerly Listed as: BRIGG FLATTS Stable and School Room at Brigg Flatts to NW of Meeting House)

GV II

Stable and schoolroom. c1720; altered. Roughly coursed rubble, graduated green slate roofs. Rectangular plan comprising a low single-storey stable building with low 2-storey portion to left containing the schoolroom at 1st floor. The stable has a large entrance doorway in the centre flanked by small rectangular 1-light windows, and in its right-hand gable wall 2 small-paned windows; the 2-storey portion to the left has a doorway at ground floor with concrete lintel, and left of this a flight of stone steps up to the schoolroom, which has a plain plank door in the front wall, two 1-light windows in the left gable wall, a stone-slate course over these, and a gable chimney. INTERIOR: stable has 2-bay roof with collar truss and butt purlins (some timbers re-used); severely plain schoolroom has small fireplace and exposed roof. Important for group value with The Friends Meeting House approx. 40 metres south-east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6405891188