The Stable Block, With Flats, Coach House And Clock Turret

ST72SW HENSTRIDGE CP INWOOD

3/87 The stable block, with flats, coach house and clock turret

GV II

Stables, coach house, flats, etc. to large house. Late C19. Local stone coursed rubble with brick dressings; plain clay tile roofs with bargeboarded gables; brick chimney stacks. Open rectangle plan around sett paved courtyard, entrance through gap in East corner. Mostly 2 storey. 16 pane sash windows in brick surounds, those to first floor set into bargeboarded gables, except in centre of North East and South West ranges, where they are set in projecting gables two bays wide: a variety of doors, including plain boarded doors to living quarters in North West range, and matching coach house/garage doors in North East range, with wide double doors with fanlight set into segmental arch in South West range; this last is the stable block, and is basically one-storey with tall roof and glazed continuous ridgelight at attic height, looking like a corridor: to gable of North East range a clock turret, timber with plaster panels, hipped slated roof crowned with lead and weathervane. A progressive and attractive assemblage foreshadowing the Edwardian style relativley unaltered. Part of a large estate with many good collected items: the main house, of 1881, is of lesser interest and not listed.

Listing NGR: ST7109520178