Carricklee Stableyard, Carricklee Road, Strabane, Co. Tyrone, BT82 9SE

Carricklee Stableyard is a detached late nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts style quadrangular stableyard dated 1891, located on the west side of Carricklee Road, Strabane. It comprises three rectangular blocks forming the north, east and south sides of a courtyard, with entrance at the east.

The buildings are constructed with roughcast rendered walls featuring mock half-timbering to the gables and stepped brick quoins. Roofs are pitched with rosemary tiles and red clay ridge tiles. Red brick corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots are detailed throughout. Deep overhanging timber sheeted eaves with exposed rafter ends and timber bargeboards support u-profile cast-iron rainwater goods. Windows are bottom-hung sixteen-pane timber casements within cambered-headed openings, painted with stepped brick surrounds and projecting masonry cills.

The north block is a seven-bay one-and-a-half-storey structure containing the stables and is the largest and most elaborately detailed block. Rectangular-on-plan with a hipped roof, it features cross-gables at the north end surmounted by a clock tower with bellcast roof and weathervane. Gables project to the south and east courtyard-facing side with a slightly lower ridge line. The west pitch contains two wall-head dormers and a central timber louvred cowl-dormer, while the east pitch contains three timber louvred cowl-dormers. The principal south elevation facing the stableyard contains a central square-headed entrance door with two windows at each side. The left gable has a window at each floor (twelve-pane at first floor), abutted at the left corner by a roughcast rendered wall with rosemary tiled coping. The right gable contains a round-arched-headed opening with a window at first floor, abutted at mid-height by a pitched canopy aligned east-west. The left south gable is blank. The west elevation is gabled at the left side with a central gabled entrance porch containing vertically sheeted timber studding and a boarded window to the gable, with vertically sheeted timber doors to each cheek. A window at first floor level is present, and at the right a series of eight square-headed ventilation openings surmounted by two wall-headed hipped dormers contain timber-sheeted loft doors. The north elevation is abutted by a full-height canted bay containing a stairwell at the right and a single-storey lean-to extension at the left. The exposed section contains a vertically sheeted timber door within a stepped brick surround and cambered opening. The canted bay has a bellcast rosemary tiled hipped roof with exposed red brick walls; the ground floor is abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension. At first floor level there is a six-pane fixed window at landing level and four-pane fixed windows at each cheek with a continuous masonry cill.

The south block contains a rectangular-on-plan single-storey cottage with pitched roof and a single red brick corbelled chimneystack with clay pots, detailed in the manner of the stable block. The north elevation facing the stableyard contains a vertically sheeted timber door with fanlight over at the right, with five windows at the right. The east gable is blank with mock half-timbering. The south elevation contains double leaf glazed doors with fixed side lights at the right; two square-headed ventilation openings at eaves level to the left of the door are now blocked and rendered; two windows are at the left. The west gable, facing the stable block, is abutted at the right corner by a roughcast boundary wall with rosemary tile coping and lean-to store, with the exposed section blank.

The north single-storey block is rectangular-on-plan, detailed as the other blocks. Its south elevation facing the courtyard is abutted at roof level by a pitched canopy, the north side tiled and the south side glazed, supported on four cast-metal columns and metal trusses. The exposed section below contains a vertically sheeted timber door with fanlight over at the left, a window at immediate right, a vertically sheeted timber door with fanlight over at the right with a window at immediate left, and a cast-iron water tap surround at the far right, followed by a series of large vertically sheeted timber sliding doors. The west elevation is abutted by a single-storey lean-to extension of no interest, with the exposed section blank. The north elevation contains three windows at the right; the east gable is blank with mock half-timbering.

The stableyard is accessed from the east side via vertically sheeted timber gates supported on brick piers with projecting base and decorative capping stones with ball finials and crests. The crest on the left pier contains the letters 'J.H.', while the right north pier contains the date '1891'. The stableyard is bounded by roughcast rendered walls with pitched rosemary tiled coping and exposed rafter ends. The north-west corner, formed at the internal angle between the north and west blocks, is also bound by similar walls forming a small square yard accessed at the west side.

Set within a mature landscaped estate, the stableyard is located north-west of the main Carricklee house.