Golden Grove Stable Block

This is a stable block constructed in a simplified neo-Tudor style, mirroring the design of the main house. Built in the 18th century, the stable block is rectangular, measuring approximately 45 by 30 metres, and incorporates an internal courtyard. It is linked to the main house and other service areas via walls surrounding the coalyard and dairy yard, and a covered walkway. The block comprises three low ranges of one storey and an attic, with the side facing the house largely open, except for low lean-to structures built against the corner buildings and a high wall containing an archway. Four two-storey corner buildings are also present.

The structure is built using hammer-dressed limestone masonry with ashlar detailing and features low-pitched slate roofs laid in graded courses, with metal ridges. The main entrance is located on the south side, featuring a central high four-centred archway set within an ashlar gable topped with a coped parapet. It is flanked by simple gothic wrought iron gates, and further ranges of three bays extend outwards on either side, defined by sloping-topped buttresses. These ranges have three-light mullion and transom windows in the first two bays near the archway, and two single-light transom windows in the more outer bays. The corner buildings have gables on all four elevations and a stack at each corner, rising to a distinctive cluster of four diagonal chimneys. The west elevation displays a central four-centred entrance lacking a gable, alongside two dormer windows above the eaves. The north elevation incorporates three dormer windows, the central one being wider and taller than the others and topped with a chimney.

Stone corbels support the eaves both externally and within the courtyard. Most ground-floor windows are mullion and transom type with three lights, though some are single or two-light. Upper-floor windows in the corner buildings, facing outwards, are three single lights without a transom. Attic windows in the low ranges are above-eaves dormers built in masonry, with prominent moulded copings to their gables and double-corbelled skew-stones.

The interior of the courtyard is similarly detailed, with a high gabled entrance arch on the south side and flanking bays with dormers in the roof. The north range's yard-facing side has six four-centred coach-arches, all now filled, with archways between single-light windows flanking them. Two dormer windows on this yard-facing elevation, alongside two on the exterior elevation, are larger than the others and have chimney stacks on their gable apexes. A through-eaves dormer, incorporating a six-hole columbarium (pigeon loft), is prominent on the west range's yard-facing side. Attached to the west elevation is a semi-circular dung yard enclosed by a high rubble masonry wall, with external gatepiers and wrought-iron gates that match those at the main entrance.

Within the attic of the north range, several former servants’ rooms remain. Four of these rooms retain small firegrates built into the masonry below their dormer windows.