Stables And Ancillary Building, Hallyburton Estate

John Ramsay, 1857-8. Well-detailed 2-storey, 5-bay, piend-roofed, U-plan stable block with principal elevation to main house incorporating basket-arched carriage openings and upper floor windows rising into stone dormer gablets. Snecked sandstone rubble, some roughly squared, with long and short quoins. Voussoirs, projecting cills and wide windows.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: symmetrical entrance elevation to SW with 2-leaf pedestrian door and multi-pane fanlight at centre below recessed panel under dominant shouldered wallhead stack. Window to each flanking bay and 2-leaf timber doors to broad carriage openings at outer bays; regular fenestration at 1st floor. SE elevation with regular openings to 7 recessed centre bays, small hayloft type openings at 1st floor, some louvered, and projecting piended outer bays, that to left with lean-to canopy on cast iron columns at right return and that to right with basket arched carriage entrance on left return.

Largely 24-pane glazing patterns with broad centre vertical astragal in timber sash and case and fixed windows. Grey slates with traditional cast iron rooflights. Coped ashlar stacks. Ashlar-coped skews

INTERIOR: some early detail retained including tiled floors, boarded dadoes, loose boxes, cast iron feeding troughs and some decorative cast iron ventilators.

ANCILLARY BUILDING: slated, rectangular-plan, M-gabled, rubble ancillary to NE with large ridge ventilators (see Notes) and tiny triangular roof ventilators. 2-leaf timber doors and 4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows.