Chipley Park And Wall Abutting South East Corner With Gatepier

Chipley Park is a former stable building, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, which has been converted into a dwelling in the 20th century. The structure is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a red sandstone random rubble plinth, a moulded ashlar dado, and features a flat brick continuous string course. It has hipped slate roofs with coped verges on the gables and brick stacks in the end two bays on the left and rising from the eaves on the right.

The stable range faces south and was originally accessed from the north front. It has been rebuilt and extended in the 20th century, with a detached carriageway at the east end linked by a 20th-century brick gallery. The wall with gatepiers is located at the south-east corner. The building is one and a half storeys high, featuring two gabled bays on the left, a five-bay centre, and a gabled end bay on the right. There is a first-floor corridor linking one bay beyond the gabled dormers in the centre, with an early 18th-century leaded window in the second gable end on the left. The left end bay has a loft door with a 20th-century window in the centre, and three 20th-century casements flanking a central inserted doorway with a keystone and a half-glazed 20th-century door. The right end bay has been partly rebuilt and includes a blocked gable end opening and a window opening on the left, with extensive rebuilding at the rear in the 20th century.

The interior has not been seen. The wall, made of red brick in Flemish bond, is approximately 20 meters long and features clay tile coping that sweeps down to a square gatepier with a moulded brick cap plinth and a bell finial. There is a semi-circular headed doorway leading to a walled garden, with hood mould additions and an imported face terminal depicting a king and queen. The original house, which was likely built by Edward Clarke, a friend of philosopher John Locke, was located to the south-west with the walled garden behind it. The property passed by marriage to the Sandfords of Nynehead Court. The house was reportedly demolished in the late 19th century and does not appear in a photograph of the current house taken around 1910.