Stables And Ancillary Building, Hallyburton Estate

The stables and ancillary building at Hallyburton Estate were designed by John Ramsay and constructed between 1857 and 1858. This well-detailed, two-storey, five-bay stable block features a piend roof and is arranged in a U-shape, with its main façade facing the main house. The principal elevation includes basket-arched carriage openings and upper floor windows that rise into stone dormer gablets. The structure is built from snecked sandstone rubble, with some sections roughly squared, and it features long and short quoins, voussoirs, projecting cills, and wide windows.

The symmetrical entrance elevation on the southwest side has a central two-leaf pedestrian door with a multi-pane fanlight above, set below a recessed panel and a dominant shouldered wallhead stack. There is a window in each flanking bay and broad carriage openings with two-leaf timber doors at the outer bays. The first floor has regular fenestration. The southeast elevation has regular openings across seven recessed central bays, with small hayloft-type openings on the first floor, some of which are louvered. The projecting piended outer bays include a left bay with a lean-to canopy supported by cast iron columns at the right return, and a right bay featuring a basket-arched carriage entrance at the left return.

The windows predominantly have 24-pane glazing patterns with a broad centre vertical astragal in timber sash and case and fixed windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and features traditional cast iron rooflights, along with coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews.

Inside, some early details have been retained, including tiled floors, boarded dadoes, loose boxes, cast iron feeding troughs, and some decorative cast iron ventilators.

Adjacent to the main stable block is an ancillary building that is rectangular in plan with an M-gabled roof, constructed from rubble. It features large ridge ventilators and tiny triangular roof ventilators. The ancillary building has two-leaf timber doors and timber sash and case windows with a four-pane glazing pattern.