South Stable Range And Coach House, Kelloe House

South Stable Range And Coach House, Kelloe House

Early 19th century and substantial later 19th century ancillary buildings forming a stable and coach house, with setts to courtyard. The principal house, Kelloe House, was demolished in the late 1970s, leaving the former Butler's wing, the stable and coach house, and a hydroelectric plant.

FORMER BUTLER'S WING

A 2-storey, 3-bay structure built in sandstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings and broadly-droved tails. The south elevation is line-rendered. Base course and eaves course mark the horizontal divisions.

The west elevation has irregularly-disposed bays with small windows at first floor in each bay. The centre bay features a round-arched partially-blinded opening at ground level with a modern bipartite window, whilst the bay to the right has a similar blinded opening. The bay to the left has windows to each floor.

The east elevation displays a single storey projection in the centre bay, positioned close to the left bay. The south return has two bays: the left bay contains a blinded door opening, and the right bay has a modern window and door. An ashlar-coped engaged gatepier marks the south-east corner. The north return elevation has two bays, each with windows (the left bay window is small). The left bay contains a boarded door flanked to the right by a window, with a window above at first floor. The right bay has a 2-leaf boarded door with a window at first floor above.

The windows are varied, including 12-pane timber sash and case and 4-pane timber casement windows. The roof is a graded slate piended roof with an ashlar-coped stack at the centre and a modern skylight to the east. The interior was not seen at the time of survey in 1996.

STABLE AND COACH HOUSE

These buildings are constructed in bull-faced stone with polished ashlar dressings, raised margins, and chamfered arrises.

North Range

A single storey, 11-bay stable block with bays grouped as 2-6-3.

The south elevation features large windows to each of the 6-bay group, each breaking the eaves with an ashlar dormerhead above. The central 2-bay group is distinguished by a shared gable with a round louvred opening and keystone in the gablehead. A basket-arched cast-iron niche to a tap is positioned to the outer right. The 2-bay group to the outer left has a raised eaves height with 2-part stable doors with 3-pane fanlights above to each bay, and an ashlar pyramidal-coped engaged gatepier (to a single storey addition to the outer left). The 3-bay group to the outer right is single storey with attic and raised eaves height. The centre bay has a window; the right bay has a partially-blinded shouldered double opening with a window; the left bay has a similar opening with a tripartite arrangement of boarded and glazed sliding doors with flanking similar lights, a multi-pane fanlight above, and a window with ashlar dormerhead breaking the eaves. A single storey lean-to projects to the east (outer right).

The north elevation has 3 segmental-arched small vent openings breaking the eaves with cat-slide roofs to the 6-bay group at centre. Similar openings appear in each bay of the 2-bay group to the right at the same height, but without cat-slide roofs. Windows to the centre of the 3-bay group to the left and in the right bay are at ground and break the eaves in dormerheads above. A blinded shouldered double opening is at ground of the left bay. Windows are mostly 12-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case. The roof is slate with a lead ogee-roofed vent between the outer bays of the 6-bay group, topped with louvred lucarnes to the base and a stamen finial (extant to the east vent); a similar but larger vent sits at the apex of the piended roof to the 2-bay group to the west. Ashlar-coped skews mark the 3-bay group to the east, with truncated sandstone apex stacks to east and west and an ashlar-coped stack to the left of centre.

The interior features white ceramic tiling to each individual stable in the 2-bay group to the west, with buff tile dado and skirting band. The main stable has timber boarding with cast-iron stalls (originally comprising 2 loose boxes and 4 stalls, now altered to 4 loose boxes), with herring bone tiling to the floor. White ceramic walls with green hexagonal tiling above the dado and tan surround support timber cross-beams to a coved ceiling. A tack room occupies the west of the 3-bay group with a vestibule to the south containing a feed shoot from the loft. The remaining part of this section has been converted into domestic accommodation.

South Range

An L-plan single storey with attic range positioned to the east of the former Butler's wing, now used as stables and formerly with an apple store in the attic of the north-south section.

The north elevation has 6 bays grouped as 2-3-1. The 3-bay group features segmental-arched openings with 2-leaf boarded doors to each bay. The single bay to the outer right has a 2-leaf boarded door. A lean-to projection to the 2-bay group contains a small window in the left bay and a door opening with 2 boarded doors to each side of a short passage, flanked by small windows. A coped wall projects to the north from the outer left.

The east elevation is irregular with 6 bays. Two boarded doors at the centre bays each have a vent above. Boarded doors appear in each bay of the 2-bay group to the outer right (the outer right bay on the east elevation of the lean-to). The 2-bay group to the left has double openings with boarded stable doors and boarded panels, divided by a cast-iron column.

The south elevation has a boarded door to the projecting section to the right, with a window at first floor to the west return elevation. A boarded door is at ground of the outer left bay. Plate glass timber sash and case windows light the interior. The roof is slate with 2-pane 19th century rooflights to north and south; a platform and piended roof covers the north-south section (with apple store at first floor). A coped wallhead stack sits at the centre of the south elevation. A lead ogee-roofed vent tops the roof intersection.

The interior has modern stalls to the west-east section.

FORMER HYDROELECTRIC PLANT

A single storey rectangular-plan building positioned to the east of the north range. It is constructed in sandstone with stugged ashlar dressings, a slate roof, lead guttering, and timber eaves. It was no longer in use as a hydroelectric plant at the time of survey in 1996.

DRUM PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL

A whinstone and sandstone rubble coped wall stands to the west of the former Butler's wing. Two substantial ashlar drum piers, now positioned to the west of the former Butler's wing, are believed to have been taken from Broomhouse.