Stable Cottage, Engine House, Corner Cottage and Coachmans Cottage

Stable Cottage, Engine House, Corner Cottage, and Coachmans Cottage is a coach house built in 1875 by Philip Webb for Sir I Lowthian Bell. It features light red brick with ashlar dressings, weatherboarding, and plaster, topped with a pantiled roof and brick chimneys. The building has a square plan surrounding a covered yard. The main south front is two storeys high with five wide bays. A wide, splayed central carriage arch has a round head that rests on curved stone imposts, flanked by brick bays. The ground floor centre is recessed under a coved jetty that rests on a rounded stone band. The first floor is weatherboarded above, while the side bays are brick. The windows include casements in the inner bays and sashes with glazing bars in the outer bays, along with a segment-headed door in the right bay. The hipped roof has two ridge stacks with dentil cornices. There are single-storey ranges behind the main structure. Inside, the building features king-post and queen-post roof trusses, some of which have a very wide span. This is a highly innovative and imaginative design, although the roof was in poor condition at the time of the survey.