Old stable block
Old stable block
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1027845
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old stable block
- Statutory Address:
- Old stable block
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1027845
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old stable block
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old stable block
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Old stable block
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitmore
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 81035 41258
Details
SJ 84 SW
6/191
WHITMORE C.P.
WHITMORE
Old stable block
(formerly listed as Outbuilding at hall)
17/11/6
GV
II*
Former stable block. Late C16/early C17 with later additions and alterations. Coursed sandstone rubble on chamfered plinth with moulded string course and integral end stacks; plain tiled roof and wooden cupola.
Two levels; lower for stables, upper for grooms' accommodation; three mullioned windows to first floor, those to left and right of three lights, all with latticed glazing; ground floor with central doorway under massive Tudor-arched lintel, flanked by renewed two-light mullion windows and two single-light windows on each side (all also with latticed glazing); the door itself is nail-studded in imitation of the original door to left-hand gable end; hexagonal round-arched wooden cupola (probably C18 but considerably restored) slightly to left of centre, lead dome and clocks on north and south faces. Scattered mullion and single-light windows to gable ends and rear.
Interior: stabling for nine horses perfectly preserved; round-headed wooden arches with large globular pendants, the arches repeated above the trough on the back wall;, stone flagged and cobbled floor. Access by mid-C20 spiral staircase in south-west corner to first floor; double-purlin roof in three bays with tie beam, collar beam and windbraces; square panelled cross and spine walls supporting mechanism for clock and former loft (floor removed); fireplaces in end walls with plain, massive lintels.
Listing NGR: SJ8103541258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362737
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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