Building record 2230/2/3 - Stables & Attached Walls c.20m North of Lilford Hall

{1} Stables and ancillary offices. Probably early/mid C18 for Powys family. Modified mid/late C19. Limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs. U-shaped plan. 2 storeys. Elevation to courtyard of 5-window range. Centre 3 bays are flanked by wings breaking forward with 2-window range to end of each wing. Central carriage arch with keyblock. Casement windows with glazing bars, reducing at first floor, have gauged stone heads. Centre range has triangular pediment. Moulded cornice, plain parapet and hipped roof with ashlar ridge stacks. Central, octagonal, wooden cupola with arched openings, cornice dome and weathervane. Elevation to left and right of similar 5-window ranges. Left elevation has stone mullion and transom windows with segmental heads, probably remodelled C19. Rear elevation of 7 bays. Triple arcade to centre with flanking arches forming entrances to coach-houses. Pediment over. C19 quadrant wall attached to left of courtyard elevation links to north-west wing of Lilford Hall (q.v ). C19 walls also attached to right. Interior mainly C19 and C20. Stables form a pair with Stables and attached walls approximately 20 metres north-east of Lilford Hall (q.v.).



{2} Stables and ancillary offices. Probably early-mid C18th for the Powys family. Modified mid-late C19th. Limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs. U-shaped plan. Central octagonal wooden cupola with cornice dome and weathervane. Includes a coach house, and attached courtyard walls, and is linked by arches to the hall. Forms a pair with the stable block on the north side of the courtyard. The courtyard is bounded on north-east side by gates and screens and attached walls. Probably mid C19th. Wrought iron gates and screens and limestone ashlar walls. Central pair of C18th style gates.

{4} Two identical stable and office blocks built on the north side of hall. Both have projecting wings and cupola, and are of a formal composition.

{5} C18th stables at the rear of the hall form part of that architectural grouping.

{6} In the C18th matching service and stable pavilions were added to the north of the house and the north front was given more emphasis as an entrance. They were in existence before 1744. Henry Flitcroft is recorded as working at Lilford from 1744 when he provided designs for the ironwork fence and gateway built between stable pavilions to close the courtyard on the north side. Fig.353 shows plan. Fig.358 is a photograph from the north-east.

{7} Stables buildings flanking a courtyard behind the house are shown.

{8} Shows stable building either side of main house.

{9} Includes stable buildings to each side of house.

{10} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 16/93 (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G09 p.46-47 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> 1975-85, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Series). SNN100542.

<4> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.291 (checked) (Series). SNN1320.

<5> Page W. (ed), 1930, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.227 (checked) (Series). SNN100370.

<6> Heward J.; Taylor R., 1996, The Country Houses of Northamptonshire, p.266-272 (checked) (Book). SNN41757.

<7> Untitled Source, (checked) (Photographs). SNN48691.

<8> Pranker R.; Harris J., 1758, Illustration, (checked) (Print). SNN41821.

<9> 1791, Lilford Estate Map, (checked) (Map). SNN41841.

<10> Photographs of buildings in Lilford (Photographs). SNN112633.

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