Stable Block, Fogo Manse

Stable Block, Fogo Manse

A substantial manse complex designed by James Cunningham in 1842, subsequently extended and altered. The principal building is a 2-storey, 3-bay classically detailed structure positioned south of an original earlier house, with a 2-storey wing to the rear forming an approximate T-plan, and a single-storey, near square-plan block adjoined to the northeast. The main building is constructed in squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings, featuring a raised base course in part, narrow strip quoins, raised margins, and projecting window cills. The sides and rear are executed in sandstone rubble with long and short droved rubble surrounds to rear openings.

The southeast (entrance) elevation displays a part-glazed 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground level with a small-pane fanlight and corniced surround, aligned with a single window at first floor. Corniced, canted windows in both flanking bays at ground floor are matched by single windows above. A single-storey conservatory with a 2-leaf glazed timber door and flanking barley twist columns is recessed to the right, with a further 3-bay single-storey block set back to the outer right containing single windows in each bay.

The northeast elevation shows the original house with a projecting conservatory offset to the right of centre, featuring regularly spaced barley twist columns, with blind bays in the remainder. A single-storey block advanced to the outer right contains two single windows offset to the right of centre.

The northwest (rear) elevation comprises a blind 2-storey wing projecting to the outer right. A boarded timber door within a single-storey recessed porch is positioned to the left, with a stair window above, while a timber door in an outer left bay features a narrow side light and an aligned first-floor window above. A single-storey block projecting to the outer left contains single windows in all three bays. A rubble-coped rubble wall encloses a courtyard with a square-headed door opening.

The southwest (side) elevation has a 2-bay block to the right with single windows at both ground and first floors. A recessed 2-storey, 3-bay wing to the left displays single windows at both floors in the outer bays, with a narrow single window at first floor offset to the right of centre.

Windows throughout employ predominantly lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. Grey slate piended roofs are platformed in part. Prominent wallhead stacks occupy the western and eastern positions: the western stack is sandstone ashlar with four linked, corniced flues and octagonal cans, while the eastern is rendered; a corniced ridge stack sits to the rear. Rainwater goods have been replaced.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.

The associated stable block comprises a single-storey, 6-bay range with a modern addition adjoined to the outer right. It is predominantly constructed in harl-pointed sandstone rubble with droved rubble dressings and dry dash to the outer left. The southeast (entrance) elevation contains a large timber garage door in the outer left bay and a small single window in the adjoining bay; boarded timber stable doors occupy the remaining bays to the right. A large modern addition obscures the outer right bay. Modern windows and various skylights have been introduced. The roof is grey slate piended with replacement rainwater goods.

The stable block interior retains part whitewashed rubble walls and iron hay racks.

Garden walls and boundary walls feature rubble with arched coping, and a square-headed garden opening to the north. The site boundaries are partially enclosed by rubble-coped walls. The entrance is flanked by squared sandstone rubble square-plan piers with shallow pyramidal caps and timber gates.