Stable Block And Adjoining Gate-Piers At Danby Hall

SE 18 NE THORNTON STEWARD DANBY

4/124 Stable Block and adjoin gate-piers 15.2.67 at Danby Hall (formerly listed as Stables GV II at Danby Hall under General)

Stable block and gate-piers. Early C18. Rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 3 ranges around a courtyard. 2 storeys. Main range - 2:3:2 bays, central block taller and brought forward. Quoins. Coach opening with remains of brick segmental arch, and relieving arch above, partly filled with brick and inserted in it a Baroque door suround with pulvinated frieze and ogee scroll pediment, board door with 4 glazed panels at top. On either side, 20-pane sash windows in stone surrounds with brick blocking below. Vent slits to hay-loft above. Moulded stone surround to oculus blocked with brick containing sundial inscribed 'Morea dum moreo', formerly under pediment. Hipped roof, and cupola with clock, lead ogee roof and weather-vane. Recessed bays to left, have stable door in stone surround with pulvinated frieze and cornice above supporting 3 finials, and to left 20-pane sash window in moulded stone surround. On first flor: 20-pane sash window in moulded stone surround and blocked opening. Recessed bays to right, with board door with 4 glazed panels at top in surround as to left, and to left 20-pane sash window in moulded stone surround with keystone, on first floor similar windows and blocked opening. Return of left wing: rusticated quoins left, 4 coach openings (3 blocked) and on first floor 3 openings in moulded stone surrounds, central one shuttered, other two 20-pane sash windows. Hipped roof left. Return of right wing: rusticated quoins right, on ground floor 2 small windows in moulded stone surrounds (one blocked), first floor as left wing. Hipped roof right. Outer return of right wing: ground floor: window; board door with 4 glazed panels in chamfered stone surround with pulvinated frieze and cornice supporting 3 balusters; window; carriage entrance with flat-headed moulded surround with keystone, benchmark on right-hand jamb; steps up to board door with 4 glazed panels in chamfered stone surround; window. 4 windows above. All windows in moulded stone surrounds Hipped roof. Ashlar gate-piers adjoining left wing, with cornice and ball finials (one displaced at time of re-survey).

Listing NGR: SE1591887218