Former Stables on Sergeants Lane

The former stable building on Sergeants Lane is a two-storey structure with an angled frontage and an additional range extending to the rear. It is constructed from rubble stone with brick dressings, featuring two-stage brick-arched heads with keystones for the ground floor openings and flat brick arches for the first floor. The roofs are covered with corrugated sheet and slate.

The entrance from Sergeants Lane has paired arched entrances offset to the right on the ground floor, with double timber doors to the left and a blocked opening to the right. There is a small two-light casement window to the left. On the first floor, there are tall blocked openings above each entrance, including a former loading door with a hoist ‘cat head’ beam to the right and another blocked opening, possibly a loading door, to the left.

Access to the rear range is provided by the left-hand arched entrance, leading to a passageway. The rear elevation features a plain brick-arched head to the passageway, with a small 12-pane horizontally sliding sash window above. A short single bay wing extends from the frontage range, complete with a brick gable chimney stack, a surviving 12-light hornless sash window on the first floor, and a smaller window below. There is a further lower range set back slightly beyond this, with two central wide openings flanked by single openings on the ground floor, all featuring two-stage brick-arched heads with keystones. Additional doorways are located at each end. The first floor has a square central opening, with further openings aligned with the flanking doorways below. Evidence of an adjoining structure, now lost, can be seen at the far end.

Inside, the pitched stone passage from the left-hand archway features ‘tramline’ flag stones. The stabling area to the left includes timber stalls, an arched screen, panelling, a manger, and tack hooks. A room to the right has been converted for stabling in the late 20th century. The first floor and rear range were not inspected.