Stable block, Craigiehall is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1981. Stable court.
Stable block, Craigiehall
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-gateway-rye
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1981
- Type
- Stable court
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This near-symmetrical U-plan former stable court dates mainly from around the 1860s and is mostly enclosed on the east side with a screen wall with gatepiers dated 1749. The complex comprises a principal 2-storey and attic, 5-bay west range, which has flanking, lower, 3-bay wings to the sides and there are projecting single storey wings to the north and south which forms a U-plan. A coped rubble wall is situated to the east side of the courtyard. The building incorporates some 18th century fabric and there is a late 20th century single-storey lean-to to the south west and an upper storey extension to the northwest. The building is of random rubble with stugged ashlar margins and there are projecting cills to the windows.
The courtyard elevation of the west section has a slightly advanced central gabled bay with a round-arched entrance door at the centre with an armorial panel above, and a clock at attic level. There is an octagonal belfry at the gable apex. There are four segmental-arched cart-arches at the ground floor which have been filled in with entrance doors and windows. One arch is dated 1757. The attic dormers break the eaves and are mostly gabled, with one cat-slide dormer. The rear elevation has an advanced central 5-bay section and a mixture of single and bipartite fenestration. The block has triangular skews with bracketted skewputts and coped, gablehead and ridge chimney stacks.
The gabled north and south wings have an irregular window pattern to the elevations with irregularly spaced timber entrance doors. The south wing has a finial at the gablehead.
The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with some 8-pane, and some hoppered windows to the north range. The roofs have graded grey slates.
The east side of the courtyard is partly enclosed by a stugged, squared and snecked sandstone wall with ogee ashlar coping which sweeps up to a pair of central gatepiers at the centre. The coped gatepiers are square-plan with deep fluted, banded pilasters. They are dated 'ANNO 1749' and have the inscription 'CAR H W'.
The interior was partially seen in 2016. The west section has been converted into separate office rooms and there is a winding stone stair to the centre of the section. The south wing has been converted into a chapel.
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