Stable Cottage

WEST COKER CP HIGH STREET (South side) ST5213 10/273 Stable Cottage (formerly listed as Stabling at West Coker Hall) 19.4.61 GV II

Stables, now converted into house. Circa 1840, with some C17 fragments incorporated. Local stone rubble with Ham stone dressings; concrete double Roman tiles between stepped copings with gabletted finials. 'L'-shaped plan. 2-storeys, East elevation of 3-bays with Eastwards projection to Southern end. Hollow chamfer 2-light mullioned windows bay-1 and -3 (the former possibly a copy), and between then moulded cambered arched porch recess with incised spandrels in heavy lintel with square-stepped label over; above three C20 leaded light casements in pitched roof corners; further mullioned windows in projecting gable, some copies; projecting again from this a matching C20 single-storey wing. In North gable two 3-light blind windows with trefoil cusped heads under flat arch: and label; above them a pointed arch with modern infill. Interior not seen. Fragments may come from Naish Priory, East Coker (qv), (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1972).

Listing NGR: ST5208013766