Stables and Coach-house at Picton Castle

The stables and coach-house at Picton Castle are a rectangular block, approximately 40 by 60 metres, built in a castellated style. The design emphasizes distinct elements, creating a picturesque arrangement of related buildings with a varied skyline, where some parts project or recess. Constructed of local rubble stone masonry, brought to courses, with limestone quoins, the building retains extensive traces of render, suggesting that it was originally rendered throughout. Crenellated parapets conceal slated roofs. A section at the northwest corner is missing its roof.

The layout is symmetrical around an east-west axis. The central entrance is through a vaulted passageway featuring sturdy Norman-style columns and arches with cushion caps at both the front and rear. A small carved face is positioned above the entrance. The passage vault is groined. Above the passageway is an octagonal clock tower, with clocks on the front and rear. A low-profile cupola and weathervane crown the tower. The entrance is flanked by two-storey domestic quarters, each with a three-window range. The bay closest to the entrance passage on the front elevation is slightly advanced and raised, with small round-headed windows. The parapet above the bay is corbelled forward. On the yard elevation, the outer bays of these domestic blocks are also advanced and raised; the architectural treatment is equally striking on the interior elevations as on the front.

On the opposite side of the yard is a coach-house designed to accommodate three carriages, with three high arches and three round-headed windows above. Small, angled flanking bays house staircases. A large undivided room is situated above the coach-house. The adjacent parapets are ramped upwards. To the north and south sides, with large returns to meet the coach-house, are cartsheds and stables. Cartsheds are located at the front corners, followed by a triple-arched open section with Norman-style detailing and a stable range on either side.

The end room of the domestic quarters at the north end has been adapted for use as an office and is lined with vertical boarding, featuring a narrow carved frieze at the top.