Listed Building: The Stable block (13/24)

Stable block. Mid/late C17, altered C19 and C20. Coursed limestone rubble, slate roof, brick and stone ridge stacks. F-plan originally, now L plan. 2 storeys. Surrounds 2 sides of a stable courtyard, with slightly longer range facing east. Round-arched doorway to through passage at right end of longer range facing east, otherwise panelled doors with Tudor-arched heads, some with hood moulds. 3-light stone mullion and transom windows to ground floor, some with hood moulds. Mostly 3-light stone mullioned windows to 1st floor. Windows to rear elevations are more irregular and chiefly casement windows with wood lintels. A short wing probably late C18 or early C19 projects to rear of range facing court to south containing a staircase and with small square open cupola to ridge containing bell and with domed lead roof. Stone-coped gables with kneelers. A single-storey link with Estate Office (q.v.) houses tack-room and is probably C19. An estate map of 1760 shows that a range formerly extended behind Estate Office (q.v.) and was joined to the Laundry (q.v.) to form a formal composition opposite west range of Castle Ashby (q.v.). (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p144; Castle Ashby Archives)

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Aug 13 2021 10:56AM