Stable Courtyard To North Of Hartforth Hall

A stable courtyard of mid-to-late 19th century date, originally constructed for the Cradock family. The complex is built of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and has Westmorland slate roofs. It comprises buildings of one and two storeys arranged around a quadrangle. At the east and west sides are matching coach houses, featuring leaved board doors set within paired segmental-arched coach openings, each with keystones and hipped roofs. These are flanked by lower recessed bothies. The north side is a stable range of two storeys, with a 4:1:4 bay arrangement. A central round-arched ashlar carriageway is topped with imposts and a keystone; other openings have ashlar surrounds. The ground floor features four door openings on the left and one door and three window openings on the right. The first floor has square openings with a continuous sill band. A later range was added behind the original stable block to provide additional stabling. The south range forms the rear wall of the front range, extending down into the lower kitchen yard of Hartforth Hall. The yard-facing elevation consists of three segmental-arched doorways, for staircases, at the ends and in the centre, and 12-pane unequally-hung sash windows in square ashlar surrounds. A single-storey building with a hipped glazed roof sits in front of this wall, forming an upper storey to a service range below, possibly used as a laundry. The rear side of the kitchen yard features two 6-pane doors in quoined surrounds and ground floor 16-pane sashes, alongside two first-floor 12-pane unequally-hung sashes, both with ashlar surrounds and sill bands. Internally, the stables contain round-arched manger niches in the rear wall. At the time of resurvey, the stable yard buildings and ranges behind were being converted into housing.