Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Stable range, barn, gin-gang. 8 related planning applications.

Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle

WRENN ID
patient-mullion-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Country
England
Date first listed
27 December 1967
Type
Stable range, barn, gin-gang
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The former stable range, barn and gin-gang served High Head Castle, and is now divided into five dwellings. The core of the structure dates to 1747, with alterations made in 1853 and 1854, and further modifications in the 20th century. The front facade is built with dressed red sandstone walls incorporating ashlar dressings and V-jointed quoins, while the rear and side walls are of red sandstone rubble. The roof is hipped and covered with Welsh slate, with lower courses of sandstone slates, and includes sandstone and 20th-century brick chimney stacks.

The front is two storeys high and divided into six bays, forming three-bay houses with a central archway. Stables and a barn extend around a rear courtyard, built against a bank, resulting in three-story sections at the rear. A semicircular gin-gang adjoins the lower level of the barn. The central archway features a rusticated ashlar surround with voussoirs, topped by a round patterned window and a coped gable finished with ball finials. The houses have 20th-century doors set within quoined surrounds under keyed lintels. Sash windows with glazing bars are framed by quoined surrounds and keyed lintels, resting on bracketed sills. The right return wall includes a central segmental archway with quoins, and flanking slit vents at high level, partially blocked to accommodate 20th-century windows. A lower-level, 20th-century panelled door is set in a stone surround. The left return wall has irregular window placement across different levels. The lower section is offset with four doorways and three flat stone-mullioned windows, one having its mullion removed; one doorway is blocked, and a 20th-century doorway has been cut through. Upper floors have small casement windows and a tall loft doorway in 19th-century stone surrounds. Left-side 20th-century windows are framed by cement surrounds. The rear wall has similar doorways and slit vents, partially blocked and accommodating 20th-century windows in cement surrounds. The adjoining gin-gang is off-centre and has had its roof removed.

The inner courtyard contains blocked doorways and two-light flat stone-mullioned windows, many with removed mullions. Various segmental archways are present, one dated 1854. There are also some 20th-century garage doors and windows in cement surrounds. The building is listed for group value with High Head Castle.

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