Stable Block of Middleton Hall

Two-storey stable block of symmetrical layout in neo-Classical style with a higher pedimented centrepiece over the entrance. There is a crosswing at each end, projecting slightly to the front but boldly to the rear. At the rear of the main block is a lean-to roof on an arcade from wing to wing. Rendered and whitened stonework, low-pitch slate roofs with metal ridges, two brickwork chimneys near the join with each wing and a single chimney at the rear of each wing. The front elevation is a careful architectural composition of five units. Small high pediment over the entrance arch, set forward from, and above, two half-pediments. The latter are the forward returns of the main roof. The cross-wings are hip-roofed. The central carriage arch is round-headed with boldly outbanded voussoirs and quoins and an impost on the line of a bold string-course carried around the building. This incorporates the flat-arch heads of windows beneath the half-pediments. At the top of the entrance arch over its keystone is another string course, merging with the cornices of the half-pediments. Above this on the centreline is a blank panel and above the cornice of the top pediment are ten pigeonholes. The fenestration is much altered, but there are three remaining circular windows and three 16-pane sash-windows at front, and double casements above. Four-window side elevations with 12-pane sash windows to ground floor, and triple casements to first floor. Five low-elliptical arcade arches at rear, standing on bold square imposts aligned with the string course. The rear ends of the crosswings have two-storey blind arches.