The Kennels

The Kennels consist of a high-walled yard enclosing a kennel complex and associated buildings, with a building forming an L-shape along the north and west sides. A small, single-storey lodge-style cottage was originally built to the north of the kennels, and was later extended to the rear, creating a cruciform plan. A modern lean-to kitchen now abuts the rear extension and the north wall of the kennels.

The kennel ranges have rubble walls with a chamfered plinth and dressed limestone coping. They are topped with a hipped roof covered in large slates, with skylights to the north range. A limestone ashlar chimney with a moulded capping is located at the west end of the north range. The yard opens to the south, where the wall is reduced to half-height and surmounted by heavy spiked railings. A central, square-headed entrance has dressed limestone jambs and a sawn slate lintel with “1849” carved into the top. A slabbed central passage-way is flanked by walled and railed runs, leading to a flat-headed brick doorway into a feed preparation room to the west and, originally, a whelping room to the east (now converted into a flat). A second external doorway is located at the west end of the north elevation. Dog-runs lead off the roofed kennels forming the west range. A lean-to structure abuts the west elevation, with a chamfered plinth continuing around the corner. The west elevation of the lean-to is of red brick, featuring three gabled doorways with moulded slate ridges and slate slab copings, and wood lintels; the doorway to the north is now blocked. A small cartshed is situated at the north end of the lean-to range.

The north range of the kennel building is divided into three units. The central unit contains a well, a slate water tank, and a pair of brick boilers. The unit at the north end has a fireplace and provides access to the adjoining house through a door in the north wall. The southern unit was formerly the whelping room. The roof structure consists of sawn kingpost trusses. The west range consists of roofed dog kennels.

The lodge-style cottage at the north has walls which are rendered and painted, and a steeply pitched, thin slate roof with plain bargeboards. A tall central stack rises from the roof. A canted bay window with two-light sash windows projects from the front (north) elevation. Other windows are modern, two-pane casements. A flat-roofed dormer window is on the east side of the rear wing, with four-pane casement windows.