COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE

COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE, BROOKSHILL

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Coach house and stables. Probably 1868 by RL Roumieu who designed the now ruined house, in Tudor Gothic manner. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393685
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-2010
List Entry Name:: COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE
Statutory Address:: COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE, BROOKSHILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393685
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-2010
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Feb-2010
List Entry Name:: COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE
Statutory Address 1:: COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE, BROOKSHILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE, BROOKSHILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Harrow (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 14855 92197

Details

1157/0/10093 BROOKSHILL 23-FEB-10 COACH HOUSE AND STABLES AT HILLSIDE

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1157/0/10093 BROOKSHILL 23-FEB-10 Coach House and Stables at Hillside

II Coach house and stables. Probably 1868 by RL Roumieu who designed the now ruined house, in Tudor Gothic manner.

MATERIALS: Red brick with blue brick banding, stone kneelers, alternating bands of plaintile and fishscale tile roofs, some replaced with corrugated sheeting. Diagonally boarded timber doors. Cast iron and timber stable fittings and Dutch tile flooring.

PLAN: An informal picturesque group set round two sides of a yard facing south-east overlooking the drive. The northern range comprises of a two-storey coach house and coachman's house above it and to the north of it a single storey stable block of looseboxes. To the south are loose boxes, possibly formerly a cart house and storage. The west range comprises a single storey range, now used as loose boxes and storage. Attached to the north of the coach house and stables is a single storey barn.

EXTERIOR: The coach house, stables and barn have shaped gables with stone kneelers; the coach house and stables have flush blue brick banding. The carriage doors have diagonally-set boarding, the left-hand door is said to be replaced and has a glazed upper panel, both have long strap hinges. To the right, a door and window have flush pointed arches of alternating red and blue brick, the door has a plain overlight. Above are tall loading doors similar to the carriage doors, and a two over two pane sash. The stables to the north-east have a single split stable door, also diagonally boarded. The stables to the south-west have a pair of split doors and a pair of single doors, also diagonally boarded. The west range is simply fitted with stable doors and has a shaped southern gable. To the rear of the coach house the attached barn is similar in manner to the loosebox range and has a pitch hole in each gable.

INTERIOR: Loose boxes have cast iron posts and timber partitions and linings, and Dutch tile floors.

HISTORY: Hillside was built in 1868 on behalf of Thomas Francis Blackwell, of Crosse and Blackwell, for his daughter-in-law Mrs Charles Blackwell and her daughters. The house was occupied by the second daughter and oldest surviving member of the family until her death in 1955. It was designed by Robert Louis Roumieu. The site as a whole survives complete with the shell of the house and stables and with the layout of the drive and some of the planting, which compare well with the 1896 OS map which marks the house which looked south-west over gardens and open ground with a carriage sweep set in landscaped grounds on the north-east, road side. The stables and coach house enclosed the northern side of the approach. Photographs taken in 1969 and 1973 show the stark Gothic shell of the house, with shaped gables and a conical roofed turret. It is now much overgrown within the remnants of later-C19 planting and the fabric appears to be severely depleted. To the east of the stables is a detached building in similar manner which is also shown on the 1896 OS map.

RL Roumieu (1814-1877) trained under Benjamin Wyatt. He formed the partnership of Roumieu and Gough, whose broad spectrum of work included the austere neoclassical Milner Square Islington of 1839-44, the Almeida Theatre Islington (1837-8) and the gothicising of Barry's St Peter's church Islington in the mid-1840s. Roumieu was surveyor to the French Hospital Estate, building in Hackney in 1865, and to the Hawley Charity estate.

SOURCES: The Architect's, Engineer's and Building Trades' Directory, (1868), 134 Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914, RIBA, (2001), 508 Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner, London 3: North West,(1991), 277

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The coach house and stables at Hillside are designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: the coach house and stables, complete with some fittings, reflect the Tudor Gothic manner of the house; * Setting: although the house is a shell, the picturesque layout of house, stable yard and grounds is still intact and compares with the 1868 OS map; * Historic interest: association with the Blackwell family, well-known food manufacturers.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 505309
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London 3 North West, (1991), 277

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.