Listed Building: Stable block at Wakefield Lodge and attached walls, outbuildings and gatepiers (1190683)

Stable block. Mid C18. Red brick in Flemish bond with some flared headers, hipped slate roofs, and brick ridge stacks. 2-storey, 15-window range. Double-depth plan. Principal elevation faces approach to Wakefield Lodge and has blank round-arched arcading to ground floor with lunette windows to heads and small sash windows to 1st floor with flat-arched heads. Plinth, stone impost band and bracketed stone eaves. End bays and 3-bay centre break forward. Centre has pediment framing clock face with elaborate stone surround, side-scrolls and cornucopia. 5-bay side elevation with similar arcading and windows. Elevation to stable court to rear has similar composition with double-leaf coach house doors to centre, with fanlights and lunette windows alternating with plank and stable doors with fanlights. Sashes to 1st floor. Clock-face to pediment and central circular timber arcaded cupola with bell and domed lead roof. Stable court is enclosed by walls with gatepiers to entrance and single-storey L-plan outbuildings to far corners of courtyard now converted to dwelling with C19 and C20 extensions. Interior: stalls, open-well staircase with turned balusters and wide spinal corridor to lst floor serving former grooms quarters. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p378)

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