Coach House, Wooden House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 January 1992.

Coach House, Wooden House

WRENN ID
standing-kitchen-aspen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 January 1992
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Early 19th century stables court consisting of a main U-shaped stable block and enclosing walls at the rear. The stable block is in a plain classical style with piended, slated roofs. The principal (southwest) elevation is constructed from squared coursed rubble with polished ashlar long and short quoins. Subsidiary elevations feature roughly squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings.

A two-storey, square-plan coach house is centrally located within the southwest range. At ground level, there is a segmental-arched doorway with a two-leaf, glazed wooden door. A Diocletian window is positioned at the first (domestic) floor, and a weather vane sits atop the platformed ridge of the piended roof. The rear of the coach house is blind at ground level except for a small timbered opening, and a multi-paned sash and case window is present at the first floor. Flanking the coach house are single-storey, three-bay ranges, with a central door at the rear of each. Each range has three windows, also with a rear door. All ranges continue as stabling on their returns.

The northwest wing features a large segmental-arched barn door spanning nearly the full height of the end bay (used as a hay barn), with diagonally-boarded, two-leaf doors. Adjacent to this is a central door with a hayloft opening above. A pair of margined openings are placed asymmetrically to the right of the stable, retaining stalls within, and are fitted with three-pane tilting hopper glazing. A pair of doors on the inside court elevation provide access to the stalls and hay barn. A timber-pedimented hay loft opening is above a boarded door. A brick addition is visible in the north courtyard angle.

The southeast wing has three vertically-boarded and horizontally divided stable doors on the outer southeast elevation, with a window between bays 2 and 4, fitted with wire meshed hoppers. A boarded hayloft opening is above the doors, with ramps leading to two of the three stable entrances. A pair of horizontally divided doors on the inside court elevation are accompanied by a three-step mounting block.

The interior of the stables features distinctive shallow niches with sloped cills at regular intervals along the inside of the southeast wall, alternating between large and small sizes. The roof was in poor repair in 1990; a gablet vent is located on the southeast slope.

The central court is open, enclosed by a rubble-built wall with boarded doors on the southeast and northwest flanks. A shorter walling section extends across the northeast, with an opening flanked by a pair of small, piended-roofed outbuildings (altered on the east side). The area between the stable wings and enclosing walls is infilled at the south by a corrugated iron-roofed lean-to, possibly kennels, with a cast-iron fence running along the wallhead of the north section of the enclosing wall.

A detached, square-plan, pyramid-roofed coach house stands to the south. It has a polished ashlar front with raised long and short quoins, two vertically-boarded sliding doors on a track, and a timber-boarded panel above featuring a very shallow, glazed segmental fanlight. Single-storey ranges on either side of this coach house are not included in the listing.

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