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Latitude: 51.1824 / 51°10'56"N
Longitude: -3.4446 / 3°26'40"W
OS Eastings: 299129
OS Northings: 143563
OS Grid: SS991435
Mapcode National: GBR LK.5Z1B
Mapcode Global: VH6GM.7JVY
Plus Code: 9C3R5HJ4+W5
Entry Name: Stables, Dunster Castle
Listing Date: 22 May 1969
Last Amended: 4 August 1983
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1296307
English Heritage Legacy ID: 264650
ID on this website: 101296307
Location: Dunster, Somerset, TA24
County: Somerset
District: Somerset West and Taunton
Town: Somerset West and Taunton
Civil Parish: Dunster
Built-Up Area: Dunster
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Stable
SS 9843-9943; 4/19
DUNSTER,
CASTLE HILL,
The Stables, Dunster Castle
(formerly listed as Stables at Dunster Castle including No 5 (Stable Cottage))
22.05.69
GV
II*
Circa 1660. Red sandstone, hipped slate roofs. Two storeys, L-shaped plan. Front
stone chimney stack set between row of seven hipped roofed dormer windows. Six
wooden mullion and transom windows with leaded casement lights. Slated hood on
wooden brackets to doorway at left hand end. Stone mounting block. Return wing with
two hipped roofed dormer windows and a central plain doorway breaking eaves line,
hipped roof. Central wide doorway to ground floor, square headed moulded frame,
plain boarded door. Doorway flanked by single mullion and transom windows with
leaded casements. Two casement windows with leaded lights to west gable and stair-
case turret in return angle of building with modern staircase.
Interior: front section has nine horse stalls with partitions, heel posts with acorn
decorations. Return wing separated into two stables by cross wall, east end has
eight open stalls with ornamental heel posts with partitions. All horse stalls
appear late 17th or early 18th century and are important examples of their type.
Listing NGR: SS9913243561
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