Stable Block, Stable House And Coach House, 200 Metres South East Of Skelton Castle

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NZ 61NE SKELTON & BROTTON MARSKE LANE (off west side), Skelton

3/35 Stable block, Stable House and coach house, 25.5.66 200m. south- east of Skelton Castle.

G.V. I

Stables and coach house c.1800 by Sir John Soane; stables altered and raised 1897 to form house. Dressed sandstone with tooled margins; Lakeland slate roofs. "U"-plan stable range, house at west end of south wing, coach house on west side of courtyard. Courtyard frontage of stables: 2-storey, 5-bay centre block has central, wide, full-height, segment-headed opening with voussoirs and impost bands; flanked by shallow, round-headed recesses with voussoirs, holding Diocletian windows with hopper lights and glazing bars.

Sashes with glazing bars and stone sills on first floor. Recessed behind central opening, is a segment-headed carriage opening,under wide segment-headed, fixed-light window with glazing bars, flanked by 6-panelled doors under large overlights with glazing bars. Round-headed doorways with 6-panelled doors and fanlights with glazing bars, in reveals of main opening. Moulded eaves cornice. Hipped roof has 3 ornamental metal ventilation cowls on east slope. 2-bay wings to right and left, attached to 6-bay north and south projecting wings. All are single-storey, and have similar round-headed openings and recesses with boarded doors, fanlights and Diocletian windows. Hipped roofs have similar ventilation cowls. The 3 westernmost bays of south wing now a 2-storey house. Coach house: 2 storeys, 3 bays to east and west sides. Full-height round-headed openings with voussoirs and impost bands. Boarded double doors in east side, blocked on west side. The tympana on both sides are partly blocked and hold louvred, segment-headed openings on first floor. Hipped roof and corniced external end stacks with pediments above eaves. Single-storey, one-bay wings to left and right, have round-headed openings holding boarded doors, fanlights with glazing bars and sash windows with glazing bars. Ornamental metal lantern on top of gatepier attached to south face of north wing of stables. Courtyard paved with chamfered bricks. Single-storey extension to east side of stables, and outbuildings to south and east, are not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ6527819100

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0228 IOE Records taken by Alan Bradley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project