Stable Block At Wakefield Lodge And Attached Walls, Outbuildings And Gatepiers

DEANSHANGER SP74SW 6/24 Stable block at Wakefield 01/12/51 Lodge and attached walls, outbuildings and gatepiers (Formerly listed as Stables at Wakefield Lodge)

GV II*

Stable block. Mid C18. Red brick in Flemish bond with some flared headers, hipped slate roofs, and brick ridge stacks. 2-storey, 15-window range. Double-depth plan. Principal elevation faces approach to Wakefield Lodge and has blank round-arched arcading to ground floor with lunette windows to heads and small sash windows to 1st floor with flat-arched heads. Plinth, stone impost band and bracketed stone eaves. End bays and 3-bay centre break forward. Centre has pediment framing clock face with elaborate stone surround, side-scrolls and cornucopia. 5-bay side elevation with similar arcading and windows. Elevation to stable court to rear has similar composition with double-leaf coach house doors to centre, with fanlights and lunette windows alternating with plank and stable doors with fanlights. Sashes to 1st floor. Clock-face to pediment and central circular timber arcaded cupola with bell and domed lead roof. Stable court is enclosed by walls with gatepiers to entrance and single-storey L-plan outbuildings to far corners of courtyard now converted to dwelling with C19 and C20 extensions. Interior: stalls, open-well staircase with turned balusters and wide spinal corridor to lst floor serving former grooms quarters. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p378)

Listing NGR: SP7384142506