Stables, Abbey St Bathans

These stables, dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, with a later addition, form a single-story building with a basement and attic. The complex is arranged as a six-bay, U-shaped stable block with a gabled roof, set into a sloping site and incorporating a former groom's cottage above. A rear addition is defined by an M-shaped gable. The construction is primarily of squared and snecked polished whinstone, with cream sandstone dressings. The eaves overhang and are supported by timber brackets. Rubble whinstone is used for the sides and rear, and the rear addition has slatted timber cladding. Stugged sandstone quoins are present, along with stugged long and short surrounds to lightly droved, stop-chamfered openings. Sandstone mullions define the bipartites, and projecting cills are incorporated. Some lattice glazing is visible, along with some vented openings.

The south (entrance) elevation features a recessed four-bay range with single windows at ground level, flanking a central point, with a three-pane and vented opening to the right and a latticed and vented opening to the left. Boarded timber doors are located in the bays to the outer left and right. An attic opening is boarded and set beneath a gable, offset to the right of centre, and a bipartite window breaks the eaves beneath a gabled dormerhead, also offset to the left. The gabled bays project to the outer left and right, featuring bipartite windows at both floors in the bay to the left, and a bipartite window at ground level in the bay to the right, with a single window above.

The east (side) elevation has a pair of boarded timber doors set within large, segmental-arched openings at ground level in both bays, with blind treatment above. A slatted timber addition is recessed to the outer right. The west (side) elevation is dominated by boarded timber sliding doors obscuring a depressed-arched opening at ground level, with a gabled dormer positioned above.

The north (rear) elevation includes a projecting M-gabled addition in the bays to the outer left. A boarded timber door is offset to the right of centre at ground level alongside a six-pane and vented window in the bay to the left; a blind gabled bay is present to the outer right.

The windows are predominantly timber latticed, with some three-pane and six-pane vented openings. A four-pane casement window serves the groom's cottage, and skylights are incorporated. The roof is slate, covered with cast-iron rainwater goods. A later ridge stack is visible, topped with circular cans.

The interior retains stalls, with boarded timber stall partitions, boarded timber doors, stone floors with drainage channels, timber kicking posts, and slatted timber hay boxes.

The front courtyard is a geometric-patterned cobbled area, while the rear courtyard is simply cobbled.