General, Stables, Springkell House

Probably dating to around 1840, with some older stonework incorporated, this complex comprises stables, a coach house, a groom’s house, and associated buildings arranged around a large, U-shaped courtyard. A smaller cottage and further outbuildings form a more open courtyard to the east. The buildings are mainly constructed of squared, dressed, coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, covered by broad-eaved slate roofs.

The long west range houses the stables, with doorways recessed within a wide central opening to the courtyard. Ventilator openings and stable doors face west. The north range includes a coach house behind a full-length shelter supported by cast-iron columns. A two-story groom’s house stands to the south, featuring a timber boarded entrance door and a prominent stack with grouped diamond flues. The courtyard’s southern side is enclosed by low sandstone boundary walls topped with spear-headed cast-iron railings, set between square gate piers with corniced caps and spear-headed cast-iron gates.

Kennels Cottage, a single-story, L-shaped cottage, stands to the southwest of the stables. A later 19th-century wing extends to the rear, with a mid-20th century brick addition forming a re-entrant angle. The cottage has a timber porch with a finial and decorative bargeboarding, and is characterized by flanking bipartite windows, deep bracketed eaves, corniced diamond stacks, and graded grey slate.

This is a well-detailed stable group, in use as stables in 2003. The original fittings within the loose boxes remain. The free-standing groom's house is notable, as accommodation is often located above the stables in similar complexes. The site appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1862.