Description

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH B 6274
NZ 10 SE AND SEDBURY (west side, off)

8/57 Stable block of Aske Hall

GV II

Stable block, now farm buildings. 1887. By Thomas Oliver of Newcastle upon
Tyne for the third Earl of Zetland. Second Empire style. Quadrangular
plan. 1 and 2 storeys, front 1:5:1:3:1:5:1 bays. Coursed sandstone with
some ashlar, Welsh slate roofs, also some cast iron. Bays 1, 7, 11 and 17
project and are quoined. Entrance: central 5 bays, 2 storeys. Windows have
glazing bars. Central ashlar round-arched carriageway within Tuscan
aedicule with vermiculated plinth to fluted pilasters; moulded archivolt and
foliage richly carved on spandrels; dentilled cornice continuing across side
bays; decoratively moulded and scrolled gates signed by Walker, Newcastle
upon Tyne. Flanking windows. On first floor: tripartite window flanked by
windows, all with cornices. Side bays: on each floor a window in ashlar
surround with cornice, and on ground floor with sill corbels and 2 panels
with cartouches above. Oversailing eaves with cavetto-bracketed cornice.
Hipped roofs. Ridge stacks flanking central bay. Side wings: single
storey, 5 bays. At high level, stable ventilators with cast-iron grilles in
voluted-shouldered rectangular ashlar surrounds with segmental-arched
lintels and cornices and fluted cavetto sill brackets extending below
continuous sill band. Cyma recta cornice. Ridge ventilators. End
pavilions: single storey; ashlar rusticated quoin strips; segmental-arched
window in eared and voluted-shouldered ashlar surround with cornice and
fluted cyma recta sill brackets extending below sill band. Cyma recta
cornice. Hipped roofs. Inside quadrangle, opposite entrance: 2 storey, 4-
bay block, with single-storey wing projecting forward from second and third
bays. Wing: rusticated quoin strips; central cross window in ashlar
surround; gable treated as pediment supported on paired cavetto brackets and
with clock by Benson, London in tympanum. Main block: quoins; on ground
floor in first and fourth bays, round-arched carriageways; band; first-floor
2-light flat-faced mullion windows; eaves band; central eaves stack; hipped
roof. Left side range, centre block: 2 storeys, 4 bays; quoins; centre 2
bays project with ground-floor arched openings and 3-light mullion window
above. Right side range, centre block: 2 storeys, 4 bays; quoins; centre 2
bays project with a 2-light mullion window with voluted shoulders on each
floor, sill band; arched ground-floor openings in first and fourth bays.
Stable ranges forming rest of quadrangle: single storey; openings with
ashlar surrounds, segmental-arched lintels, windows having bracketed sills,
voluted shoulders and ears. Eaves band. Hipped roofs. The stable block
cost £10,345 to build and replaced the John Carr stables nearer the hall,
which were converted into a chapel and servants' quarters. Harris J, "The
Dundas Empire", Apollo Magazine, September 1967.

Listing NGR: NZ1790703703

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26424917

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