Description

TQ 63 NE OLD HUNTSANTON BARRETT RINGSTEAD

213/4/10005 Stables to South of Downs
Farmhouse

GV II

Stables. C18, with C20 alterations. Built for the Lestrange estate. Chalk lump with brick dressings and decoration, set on brick and carstone plinth. Pantile roof covering. PLAN: Linear range, subdivided into 4 sections not linked internally. FRONT(south) elevation; 3 of 4 original stable doors remain, the most westerly now altered and with C20 double doors. The 2 central stables have windows to the side of the doorways. REAR elevation with later carstone lean-tos. West gable with pitching hole above ventilation slit, both now blocked.
INTERIOR: double butt-purlin roof with morticed collars. Harness pegs retained in east end stable.
HISTORY: the stables form one side of a U-shaped group made up of the farmhouse and the barn. Together with the livestock sheds and the granary, the stables form an unusually complete example of a C18 arable farmstead. All are shown on a plan of the farm of 1819.

Listing NGR: TF6880639930

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659956

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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