Stabling And Other Outbuildings, Attached To East Side Of Ven House

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MILBORNE PORT CP LONDON ROAD (South side) Stabling and other outbuildings, attached to East side of Ven House

24.3.61

GV I

Stables, etc. 1835-36, by Decimus Burton. Ham stone ashlar facing house, red brick with ashlar dressings elsewhere; hipped Welsh slate roof, largely behind parapet, crowned in centre of East section by classical style timber clock turret with weathervane. 'L'-plan, single storey: 13 bays along South wall, 5 bays East return. South face of South wing begins as 7 bays of high garden wall extending from South East corner of Ven House (QV), with cornice and stone piers and urn finials to parapet over, then elliptical archway with simple surround, impost blocks and console bracket keystone, plain pilasters each side, crowned with stone carved eagles; then 3 bays of 8-pane sash windows in keystoned architraved surrounds, centre adapted for french doors, parapet as before. East wall of East wing plain; West elevation has projecting centre 2 bays with large semi-circular arches with doors and overfill: South East corner room adapted as billiard room, and unit to West of archway against South wall now garage. Part of the complex setting to a Country house. (Country Life, 24 June, 1911).

Listing NGR: ST6807218401