Building record 889/2/3 - Brockhall Stable Block

{1} Stable block. Dated 1799 according to Pevsner. Ironstone ashlar, patterned slate hipped roof. U-plan. 2-window, 2-storey central block flanked by one-storey wings with hay loft enclosing 3 sides of a courtyard. 4 segmental-headed 18-panel double-leaf coachouse doors to central block flanked by 12-pane sash windows and 9-panel doors with overlight at either end. Return wings have similar doors and windows symmetrically disposed, those to right wing blind. Double-leaf garage doors replace left end door and window to left wing. String course above and row of lunettes mostly blind. Central pavilion has round-headed windows and plain pilaster strips to centre and at either end. Dentilled pediment with clock face in moulded stone frame and square surround. Square timber cupola to roof above with open round-headed arches on octagonal columns and ogee lead roof. Moulded stone eaves to wings.

{2} Ironstone ashlar stable block dated 1799 according to Pevsner; slate hipped roof; U-shape plan; integral coachhouse; clockface; square timber cupola.

{3} C18th stables to east of main house; form 3 sides to courtyard; cupola; dated 1799.

{4} Stable block built 1799.

{5} Outbuildings were removed and new stables built in 1799.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 5/41 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 p.21 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.128 (checked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> 1998, Buildings At Risk Survey, p.42 (checked) (Report). SNN43352.

<5> Bailey B.A., 1996, Northamptonshire in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Drawings of Peter Tillemans & Others, p.35 (checked) (Series). SNN41766.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Brockhall (Photographs). SNN112149.

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