Stable Block

The stable block, built around 1857 by Henry Clutton for Henry Labouchere, the 1st Lord Taunton, is located at Quantock School. It is constructed from snecked local stone with freestone dressings and features triple Roman tile roofs with banding, coped verges, and ashlar stacks. The building is arranged in an L-plan and was originally part of a quadrangle, although the rest of the quadrangle has been demolished. It includes a coach house, coachman's house, stables, and an ornamental dovecote in a Tudor-Gothic style.

A notable feature is the dovecote, which is a tapering, tile-hung cylinder that rises from a two-storey, cross-gabled tower at the northeast corner. This dovecote has blind triangular openings and an open wooden arcade, topped with a conical roof and a weathervane. The rest of the structure is single-storey with an attic, and the east front has three segmental carriage openings with plank doors and chamfered piers. There is also an open loggia supported by eight stone piers, leading to the stables that have brick fronting.

To the south, the coachman's house features stone mullioned windows and an elaborate porch on stone pillars, although there is a 20th-century door. At the time of the survey in January 1985, the entire ensemble was noted to be in a poor state of repair, with some non-conforming 20th-century alterations, particularly the insertion of windows. The design of the dovecote reflects the influence of William Burges, with whom Clutton won first place in the Lille Cathedral Competition in 1856.