The Stable Block about 30 Metres North West of Compton Castle

The Stable Block, built in the 1820s, formed part of the wider Compton Castle estate and was designed by John Finden for John Hunt. The building is constructed primarily of Ham stone ashlar to its main, south-facing elevation, with roughly coursed Ham stone rubble to the rear. Welsh slate covers the roofs, and a brick stack is present on the north central projection.

The building follows an essentially U-shaped plan, with carriage houses projecting from either end of the south elevation and a central projection on the north side that housed an estate office and boiler house. A store, predating 1887, was added to the north-east and is accessed externally.

The south elevation’s central tower contains a Tudor-arched entrance with hollow spandrels and a hoodmould, retaining its original timber door with nailed vertical fillets. Above the entrance is the original clock, also set beneath a hoodmould. The tower’s castellated parapet rises again in a reduced plan, with chamfered corners and a two-light window with a hoodmould on the front and side elevations. It is topped by a lead pyramidal roof and a weathervane. To either side of the central entrance are mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. The carriage houses have angle buttresses with offsets and cross finials to their gables (the eastern finial is broken). The eastern carriage house has two arched openings with late 20th-century doors; the western carriage house's central pier between the arches has been removed to create a garage. The north projection has two plain windows.

Inside, the central entrance leads to a lobby and divides the stable passages to the west and east. There are three stalls in the western range and four in the eastern range. The stables retain their uniform barred wooden stalling with tongue and groove panels, fitted with decorative strap hinges. Arched niches for hay are situated behind the stalls, fitted with wooden rails. The passageways have a herringbone-pattern brick floor, while the stalls are tiled. The estate office, at the rear, features small-square panelling and a columned doorway. A plasterboard ceiling now covers the ground floor. Stone steps lead to the tower, which houses the clock mechanism.

A rubblestone wall with a lean-to stone-slate roof connecting the building’s south-east corner to the reading room block of the main house is thought to have been rebuilt since 1903. A late 20th-century garage to the north-west and a metal-framed shelter attached to the west side are excluded from the listing.