Chapel-On-Leader House Stables

This is a predominantly late 19th-century garden cottage and steading, likely incorporating fabric from the early 19th century, as evidenced by the 1855 date stone. The complex follows a U-plan, comprising cottages, coach houses, stables, and offices, with a free-standing, two-stage water tower in the courtyard, which is enclosed by a coped boundary wall and railings. The steading is built of pink sandstone rubble with polished sandstone ashlar dressings; the courtyard elevations are rendered. A base course and eaves course are present, along with stop-chamfered long and short window margins.

The west range features a three-bay cottage at the south end with stone-gabled dormers breaking the eaves and a stepped hoodmould over the gable window. Stables occupy the north end. The rear elevation has fairly regular fenestration, including a gabled dormer hayloft to the left of centre. The central range contains a three-bay cottage similar to that on the west range, followed by four bays of offices to the right; a small outshot and a large, late 20th-century barn adjoin the rear elevation. The east range has a three-bay office or cottage at the south end with a central door and a pigeon loft above the south gable window, the loft featuring six entrance holes and two alighting ledges set within a stepped hoodmould. The centre of the east courtyard elevation includes two large, round-arched coach houses with two-leaf timber-boarded doors, one with decorative strap hinges.

Timber-boarded doors are used for offices. Most windows are timber sash and case with four panes, although some stables have six-pane fixed lights. The building has yellow brick wallhead and ridge stacks topped with sandstone copes and octagonal yellow clay cans. The roof is covered in grey Welsh slate. Cast-iron rainwater goods incorporate corniced rectangular hoppers and decorative brackets.

The water tower is a two-stage, square-plan structure with timber-boarded doors to the north elevation at ground and first floor levels. A gabled dormer and oculus are present on the south elevation, topped by a piended roof with a pigeon weather-vane. The tower is constructed of random rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings.

A boundary wall, gates, and gatepiers enclose the courtyard to the north. The boundary wall is of ashlar-coped random rubble and is topped with decorative spear-headed wrought-iron railings, extending in front of the southeast gable. Off-centre, corniced gatepiers with ball finials support two-leaf wrought-iron gates with curved top rails.