The Stable Block

The Stable Block is a former stables and coach-house, now converted into dwellings, built around 1790 by John Foss of Richmond for Sir John Lawson. The structure features a combination of ashlar and rubble stone with a stone slate roof and is arranged around a courtyard.

On the south side, there is a two-storey, three-bay coach-house, flanked by single-storey stables that extend along the west side and part of the east side, leading to a two-storey entrance range on the north side, which has a three-one-three bay configuration. The north elevation of the entrance range is constructed of ashlar. The central bay protrudes slightly and is gabled, featuring a carriage entrance with an architrave to a semicircular arch, which is adorned with a tripartite keystone and imposts that continue as a band. Above the entrance is a clock set within an open pediment.

The flanking three-bay ranges have round-arched casement windows set within blind arcading, with the imposts also continuing as a band. There are glazed oculi on the first floor, and the structure has hipped roofs on both sides. A central colonnaded cupola with a lead roof and weather-vane sits atop the building, and there is a 20th-century ridge stack located between the third and fourth bays.

The single-storey, two-bay returns of the side ranges feature round-arched casement windows and an impost band, with a hipped roof on the right side, which continues as a simpler single-storey range on the left. Inside the courtyard, the walls are made of rubble with ashlar dressings. The coach-house block includes chamfered rusticated quoins, round-arched doorways that have been glazed, and stepped voussoirs that spring from chamfered rusticated piers. Oculi are framed in ashlar surrounds, and there is a cornice and hipped roof. The stable ranges have former doorways with quoined and keyed ashlar surrounds, now fitted with 20th-century doors and windows. Inside the carriage entrance, to the left, there is an ashlar mounting block.