Stables at Arbury Hall and Attached Wall and Gate Pier to Left
STABLES AT ARBURY HALL AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER TO LEFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1299708
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Stables at Arbury Hall and Attached Wall and Gate Pier to Left
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES AT ARBURY HALL AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER TO LEFT
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1299708
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Stables at Arbury Hall and Attached Wall and Gate Pier to Left
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLES AT ARBURY HALL AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER TO LEFT
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:
- STABLES AT ARBURY HALL AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER TO LEFT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 33465 89328
Details
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH ARBURY PARK SP38NW 4/13 Stables at Arbury Hall and 01/01/56 attached wall and gatepier to left GV I
Stable block and attached wall and gatepier. c.1675. Possibly designed by Sir William Wilson. English bond brick with sandstone dressings. Plain-tile roof has stone-coped gable parapets; internal and external stacks to rear are mostly C19. U-plan with wings to rear and projecting entrance block. 2 storeys and attic; 3-5-2-5-3 bays. Moulded plinth, rusticated alternating quoins, moulded string courses and cornice. Symmetrical front. Centre projects by 2 bays. Large classical portal has moulded round arch with console keystone and moulded imposts. Paired Ionic half-columns and entablature with pulvinated frieze, and open pediment containing elaborate cartouche of arms with garlands. Deeply-recessed double-leaf fielded 6-panelled doors and overlight with many glazing bars. Recessed cavetto-moulded leaded cross windows with eared and shouldered architraves and brick flat arches throughout. Painted sundial between first first floor windows has patterned surround and inscription 'LIFE'S BUT A WALKING SHADOW'. Slightly-projecting cross-wings have ashlar doorways with moulded round arch and keystone, sunk spandrels with hemispheres, and broken pediment with ball finials, and moulded and fielded 8-panelled doors. First floor windows throughout have blind upper lights; some blind windows. Shaped gables to centre and wings have moulded kneelers, ball finials and windows with cornices. Centre has clock in diagonally-set painted moulded frame. 3-bay return sides. Left side has fielded 4-panelled and 6-panelled doors with large stone lintels. Rear is irregular, with some C19 additions and alterations. In 1674 Sir Christopher Wren was paid for 2 drawings for the portal, but they were not used. Interior not inspected. Wall of Flemish garden wall bond brick with stone coping. Sandstone ashlar gatepier has moulded plinth and cornice, and ball finial with fillet. (VCH: Warwickshire, Vol. IV, p174; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p68; G.C. Tyack: Country House Building in Warwickshire, 1500-1914, p199; Gordon Nares: Arbury Hall, Warwickshire I: Country Life, 8 October, 1953, pp1126-1127)
Listing NGR: SP3346489326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 174
Tyack, G C, Country House Building in Warwickshire 1500-1914, (), 199
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 68
Country Life in 8 October, (1953), 1126-27
Nares, G, Country Life in Arbury Hall, (1953), 1126-27
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,
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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