Stables, Hillhouse

The stables at Hillhouse date from the early 19th century, with some additions made in the early 20th century. This single-storey and attic stable block features a courtyard plan and includes gabled ranges of varying heights, showcasing some Gothic detailing. The structure is primarily made of rendered masonry, with polished ashlar dressings in places. It has a discontinuous eaves course, stop-chamfered ashlar quoin strips, and irregularly placed windows with raised ashlar margins.

To the left and right of the entrance on the north side, there are piend-roofed ranges that end in low finialled broken pediments. The courtyard includes offices on the north side, a coach house in the southeast corner, and stables along with a tack room on the west side, which features a central bargeboarded hayloft with bracketed eaves. There is also a central early 20th-century piend-roofed vehicle canopy supported by cast-iron columns on the east side of the courtyard. The doors are timber-boarded.

The roof features ashlar-coped skews, and there is a rendered gablehead stack with clay cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the stables in the southwest corner have dark timber-boarded panelling up to dado level, with octagonal green tiling above to head height. There are timber and cast-iron dividers with ornamental cast-iron catches for the gates, timber feeding troughs, and cast-iron corner hay cages, along with star-shaped mounts for tethering hoops. The tack room in the centre of the west range includes a cast-iron fireplace, dark timber-boarded panelling, and full-height dark timber cupboards with glazed sliding doors. The floors are laid with herringbone-pattern brick.