Stable Block With Coach House To Shapwick Manor

ST43NW SHAPWICK CP STATION ROAD (West side)

2/29 Stable block with coach house to Shapwick Manor (formerly listed as Stables)

29.3.63

GV II*

Stable block with coach house. Mid C17, probably for Henry Bull; C18-early C19 alteration and addition. Coursed and squared lias rubble, stucco, freestone dressings, slate and pantile roofs, coped verges with bases for finials, that to left with wrought-iron cresting; octagonal clock turret with domed lead roof, ball finial surmounted by a bell with a striking hammer. Jacobean. Single storey and attic, 1:5:1 bays, 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned and transomed windows to centre bays, stopped labels, upper lights leaded, iron stanchions; cast-iron casement to left window. Three door openings; to left broad with a segmental head, paired plank doors; adjacent to its right with a 4-centred head in a dressed stone surround, plank door; to right broad with a 4-centred head in a dressed stone surround, label, studded plank door with concealed latch mechanism on left jamb. Two storey wing projecting at right-angles to right, reserved chamfer stone-mullioned window to each floor of inner face. Later addition set back to left, single pitch pantile roof behind a parapet with coping; 2 door openings with segmental heads, paired plank doors; 2-light stone-mullioned windows with adjacent door opening in a dressed stone surround with a 4-centred head, studded plank door. Interior of main block on lias setts; 6 C17 stalls divided by an arcade of slightly bellied Tuscan columns, arches with semi-circular heads and turned pendants. Former windvane, now missing, dated 1691.

Listing NGR: ST4179538452