Building record 3682/2/3 - Laundry, Stable Range & Adjoining Garden Walls at Thorpe Malsor Hall

{1} Laundry, stable range and adjoining garden walls. Late C18 and early C19, with C20 additions. Ironstone with limestone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. 2-bay laundry at north east end has a coped stone gable stack. East front has to right a 6-panel door with wooden jambs flanked to left by two 3-light casements. Above, two 6/6 sashes. Rear has 2 round barred ventilators and above, two 6/6 barred sashes. All the rectangular openings have flat arches. Lower 2-stroey stable range, 11 bays, L-plan, has to east an off-centre carriage entrance with segmental head. To its left, 2 carriage openings with segmental heads and double doors covered by an early C20 glazed canopy on iron posts. Beyond, 4 doors and 4 semicircular iron casements. Beyond again, a carriage opening with segmental head, and a gabled wing. To the right, a carriage opening with segmental head and double doors. Beyond, a semicircular iron casement flanked by single doors. Beyond again, a 3-light leaded casement and a 2-leaf door, both with flat arches. Above, a near-central square pitch hole flanked ot left by 6 round ventilators. To its right, 4 similar ventilators and beyond, 2 pitch holes with flat arches. Rear elevation has scattered fenestration with casements, square pitch holes and round ventilators. Beyond, to west adjoining ironstone garden wall, raised in brick to west and inner brick leaf to north. Gabled slab coping. Curved lower south wall has gabled tile coping. Approxiamately rectangular plan, 150 by 60M wide.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/101 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K1/3 p.65 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

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Jan 6 2010 3:36PM