Coach House, Stables, Springkell House

This is a stable block, coach house, and associated buildings, likely dating from around 1840, although incorporating some older stone walls. The stables, coach house, and groom’s house are arranged in a U-shape around a large courtyard. A smaller cottage and further outbuildings form a more open courtyard to the east. The buildings are largely constructed from squared, droved, coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, and have broad-eaved slated roofs.

The main stable range faces west, with doors recessed within a wide central opening to the courtyard. Ventilator openings and stable doors are also present on the west side. The north range features a coach house situated behind a shelter supported by full-length cast-iron columns. A two-storey groom’s house is positioned on the south side, featuring a timber boarded door and a central stack with grouped diamond flues. The courtyard is enclosed at the south by low boundary walls topped with spear-headed cast-iron railings, punctuated by square gate piers with corniced caps and spear-headed cast-iron gates.

Kennels Cottage, a single-storey L-plan cottage, is located to the southwest of the stables. A later 19th-century wing extends to the rear, with a mid-20th century brick addition filling the re-entrant angle. It has a timber porch with a finial and decorative bargeboarding, and flanked by bipartite windows. Deep bracketed eaves and corniced diamond stacks are visible, along with graded grey slate.

This is a well-detailed grouping of buildings, currently in use as stables. The original fittings of the loose boxes have been preserved. Unusually for stable blocks, the groom’s house is a free-standing structure. The complex appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1862.