CARRIAGE HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF KITCHEN COURTYARD
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1067942
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jul-1985
- Statutory Address:
- CARRIAGE HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF KITCHEN COURTYARD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CARRIAGE HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF KITCHEN COURTYARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunham Massey
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 73444 87349
Details
SJ 78 NW DUNHAM MASSEY DUNHAM PARK
6/81 Carriage house
immediately to
south of kitchen
courtyard
(formerly listed
as Stables at
5.3.59 Dunham Hall)
G.V. I
Carriage house incorporating stabling and storage, now
ticket office, toilets, storage and National Trust
interpretation centre. 1721 on clock turret. Flemish bond
brickwork, stone dressings and graduated stone slate roof.
7-bay range with 4-bay wings creating a symmetrical U-shaped
plan around a courtyard. All of 2 storeys. Carriage bays
and stabling on ground floor with storage and perhaps
domestic accommodation on the upper floor. Stone plinth. 3
carriage bays with segmental stone arches, keystones and
impost blocks on either side of a central 2-storey high
carriage-way which has giant pilasters, entablature and
pediment on the inner side and semi-circular archway on the
outside with impost blocks, stone voussoirs and pediment
over. 3 cross windows with stone mullions, transoms and
surrounds to each wing on the ground floor. Later stone
carriage bay to right wing and door to left wing. All first
floor windows are segmental headed sashes with moulded
architraves. One small eaves pediment to each wing and 1
oeil-de-boeuf to the end of each wing. The roof, which has
hips to the wings and coped gables with kneelers to the main
range is centrally surmounted by a large timber clock
turret, lead covered bell cupola and weather-vane. The
outer (west) elevation has 3 cross windows (as above), 2
rows of vents to the upper floor and 2 chimney stacks with
diagonally set shafts. A bread oven projects from the north
elevation. Interior: 1 stall remains in the south wing. The
first floor has been removed in the north wing. Pegged
king-post roof trusses.
Listing NGR: SJ7344487349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212839
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 18 Greater Manchester,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing