Building record 4709/3/2 - Stable Block & Attached Coach Houses, Stable & Barn

{1} Stable block. Mid C18, altered C20. Limestone ashlar, hipped graded slate roofs. 2-storey, 15-window range. Central round-arched carriage arch with C20 double-leaf gates. Sash windows to ground floor with round-arched heads and moulded stone surrounds. Square first floor 6-pane sash windows with moulded stone surrounds. 3 central bays break forward and have attics with horizontal oval windows with moulded stone surrounds, moulded stone eaves and pyramidal roofs. That to left formerly housed dovecote. Quoins, string course at impost level of ground floor windows and bracketed stone cornice. 1-storey, 3-bay former coach houses flank yard to rear. Round-headed arches with imposts and plain limestone ashlar piers, coursed squared stone above and hipped graded slate roofs. 4th side of stable yard opposite a stable block is occupied by central barn flanked by lower single-storey 3-bay stable wings for working horses. Barn has tall central double-leaf doors to entrance end with blank round-arched head. Wings have central 6-panel doors with overlights and moulded stone surrounds flanked by stable windows with flat-arched stone heads. Plinth and moulded stone eaves. Linked to main block by stone walls with plinth and stone coping. Interior: converted into dwelling. Original open well staircase from ground floor to attic with Chinese Chippendale style fretwork balustrade. Round-headed stone niches to former stalls. Attributed to John Carr of York. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973 p.166; Country Life: October 30th 1986, pp1388-1389)

{3} Stables - Palladian circa 1750.

{4} The stables (listed grade II*), attributed to John Carr of York (d 1807), were built on a dominating ridge-top site c 1770. The main, east front comprises a straight, fifteen-bay range, the centre three bays breaking forward under a pediment and the third bay from each end rising to a third storey as a pavilion. The stables were converted to residential use in the later C20.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/40 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.166 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> English Heritage, 1991, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1991, Northamptonshire), (checked) (Report). SNN1167.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Courteenhall (Photographs). SNN112099.

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