Groom's House, Stables, Springkell House

Probably dating to circa 1840, although incorporating some earlier stonework, the complex includes stables, a coach house, a groom’s house, and Kennels Cottage, all arranged around a large, quadrangular courtyard. A smaller, more open courtyard adjoins the buildings to the east. The structures are predominantly built from squared, droved, coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, and have broad-eaved slated roofs.

The long western range contains the stables, with recessed doors within a wide rectangular opening to the courtyard. Ventilator openings and stable doors face west. The north range houses the coach houses behind a full-length shelter supported by cast-iron columns. The two-storey groom’s house is situated to the south, featuring a timber boarded door and a centrally-placed stack with grouped diamond flues. The courtyard is enclosed to the south by low sandstone boundary walls with spear-headed cast-iron railings, square gatepiers with chunky corniced caps, and spear-headed cast-iron gates.

Kennels Cottage is a single-storey, L-plan cottage located to the southwest of the stables. A later 19th-century wing extends to the rear, with a mid-20th century brick addition in the re-entrant angle. The cottage features a timber porch with a finial and decorative bargeboarding, as well as flanking bipartite windows. It has deep bracketed eaves, corniced diamond stacks, and a graded grey slate roof.

The complex remains in use as stables and is a well-detailed group. The original fittings are retained within the loose boxes, and the free-standing groom’s house is of note, as accommodation for the groom is commonly located above the stables in other stable blocks. The complex appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1862.