Building record 780/7/2 - 19th century stable block

{1} A building assessment recorded the remains of a small stone and brick building of late nineteenth-century date. The building had been built as a stable block and coach house with a hay loft above and had a small tack room with store and privy added to the western end at a later date. It had most recently been used as a garage and store.
The stable block was built between 1885 and 1900 woth the tack room almost certainly being added shortly afterwards. The current building replaced an earlier T-shaped building which might represent a former stable. The building is constructed of red brick and limestone, indicating that some care was taken in its design to blend it with the adjacent manor. Externally there has been almost no alteration to either the stable block or the tack room apart from re-roofing. The ground floor interior of the coach house and stable has been most affected by modern intervention and almost nothing now survives of the internal dividing wall or fixtures and fittings. The first floor has undergone very little internal change. The tack room retains all the internal matchboarding and conforms to the classic 19th/ early 20th century configuration. It is likely that the building became obsolete relatively soon after its construction.

<1> Prentice J., 2011, Archaeological Building Assessment of the Stable Block at 2 Kings Lane, Flore, Northamptonshire, March-May 2011, (checked) (Report). SNN107422.

<2> Horne B. (Editor), 2012, South Midlands Archaeology (42), 42/31 (checked) (Journal). SNN108346.

<3> Chapman P. (Editor), 2012, Archaeology in Northamptonshire, 2011, 37/214 (checked) (Chapter). SNN108375.

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Oct 17 2019 10:54AM