Eastern Stable Range, Rosebank House

Eastern Stable Range, Rosebank House

A late 18th-century stable complex with later alterations and additions, constructed as a quadrangular classical courtyard block. The ranges comprise single-storey, 4-bay structures to the south-west and north-west, with a formerly pitched-roof farrier's shed on the north-east side. At the south, west, and north corners stand 2-storey, single-bay pavilions marked by tall Diocletian windows. The main walls are built of squared sandstone rubble with polished and droved ashlar dressings; the north-east addition incorporates brick. Details include a base course, band course between ground and first floor to the pavilions, an eaves course, raised margins around openings, and channelled quoins.

The south-west entrance elevation presents a 6-bay front grouped 1-4-1 facing out of the courtyard, with an architraved central doorway containing a modern part-glazed door and fanlight. Single windows occupy two bays to the right of centre. The outer pavilion displays tripartite windows at ground level with a Diocletian window above at first floor. A modern 3-light window, set wide, sits in a bay to the left of centre, with a tripartite window in the left pavilion bay and a Diocletian window (blinded to the sides) accompanied by a dormer breaking the eaves above.

The rear elevation shows a 3-bay arrangement with modern entrance porches at each re-entrant angle and 2-bay pavilions at the extremities. A modern timber door with flanking window occupies a bay to the centre left, with windows in each flanking bay. A flat-roofed brick addition projects at right angles from the left pavilion at ground level, featuring first-floor windows in each bay above. A single-bay projection extends from the right pavilion with a first-floor window.

The north-west courtyard entrance elevation comprises 4 bays with a central entrance gap, flanked by terminal gabled walls. Windows with small flanking lights sit in the bays to left and right, whilst the pavilions display tripartite windows at ground and Diocletian windows (sides blinded) at first-floor level.

The north-east range's outward-facing elevation consists of a single-storey, 2-bay former farrier's shed with windows to each bay, and a single-storey, single-bay linking wall to a 2-storey pavilion featuring a boarded door set to the left. The inward-facing elevation is divided roughly in half, with a brick garage addition to the right of centre and an open-sided double-pitch former farrier's shed to the left.

The north-east elevation displays a 2-storey, 2-bay pavilion (formerly a cart shed) with a single-storey lean-to addition to the right and a single-storey wall with an exit gap to the east angle. The outward-facing elevation features two segmental bricked arches at ground level with a dormer window breaking the eaves above, and a wallhead stack offset to the right between. The inward-facing elevation incorporates a modern part-glazed door with fanlight at the re-entrant angle, a segmental arch (now half-blocked as a garage door) at ground to the pavilion, a first-floor window, and a boarded door to the lean-to addition.

The glazing throughout displays varied patterns, with stone mullions to the tripartite and Diocletian windows. Windows include 12- and 2-pane timber sash-and-case and casement windows with top hoppers. The roof is covered in grey slate with pyramidal roofs to the pavilions; a corrugated-iron flat roof covers the garage addition and a corrugated-iron canopy shelters the double-pitch farrier's shed, whilst slate covers the lean-to cart shed addition. Rendered coped stacks sit at the ridge of the south-west range, and ashlar coped gablehead stacks crown the courtyard entrance walls. The north pavilion carries an ashlar coped stack, and the west pavilion a rendered coped stack. Ashlar skews and cast-iron rainwater goods complete the detailing.

A boundary wall of sandstone rubble with flat ashlar cope encloses the site.