Stables, Hillhouse

Early 19th century with early 20th century additions. Single storey and attic, courtyard-plan, gabled stable block ranges of various heights and some Gothic detailing. Rendered masonry with some polished ashlar dressings. Discontinuous eaves course. Some stop-chamfered ashlar quoin strips; irregular fenestration with some raised ashlar margins. Piend-roofed ranges to left and right of entrance route in N side terminating in low finialled broken pediments. Offices to N side of courtyard; coach house to SE corner of courtyard; stables and tack room with central bargeboarded hayloft with bracketed eaves to W side of courtyard. Central early 20th century piend-roofed vehicle canopy supported on cast-iron columns to E side of courtyard. Timber-boarded doors.

Ashlar-coped skews. Rendered, coped gablehead stack with clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: stables at SW corner with dark timber-boarded panelling to dado level; octagonal green tiling above to head height; timber and cast-iron dividers with ornamental cast-iron catches to gates; timber feeding troughs; cast-iron corner hay cages; star-shaped mounts to tethering hoops. Tack room to centre of W range with cast-iron fireplace, dark timber-boarded panelling and full-height dark timber cupboards with glazed sliding doors. Herringbone-pattern brick floors.