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Latitude: 52.9683 / 52°58'6"N
Longitude: -2.2838 / 2°17'1"W
OS Eastings: 381035
OS Northings: 341258
OS Grid: SJ810412
Mapcode National: GBR 037.Z9R
Mapcode Global: WH9BT.WNN8
Plus Code: 9C4VXP98+8F
Entry Name: Old stable block
Listing Date: 17 November 1966
Last Amended: 14 May 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1027845
English Heritage Legacy ID: 362737
ID on this website: 101027845
Location: Whitmore, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5
County: Staffordshire
District: Newcastle-under-Lyme
Civil Parish: Whitmore
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Whitmore St Mary and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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WHITMORE C.P.
WHITMORE
Old stable block
(formerly listed as Outbuilding at hall)
17/11/6
GV
II*
Former stable block. Late C16/early C17 with later additions and alterations. Coursed sandstone rubble on chamfered plinth with moulded string course and integral end stacks; plain tiled roof and wooden cupola.
Two levels; lower for stables, upper for grooms' accommodation; three mullioned windows to first floor, those to left and right of three lights, all with latticed glazing; ground floor with central doorway under massive Tudor-arched lintel, flanked by renewed two-light mullion windows and two single-light windows on each side (all also with latticed glazing); the door itself is nail-studded in imitation of the original door to left-hand gable end; hexagonal round-arched wooden cupola (probably C18 but considerably restored) slightly to left of centre, lead dome and clocks on north and south faces. Scattered mullion and single-light windows to gable ends and rear.
Interior: stabling for nine horses perfectly preserved; round-headed wooden arches with large globular pendants, the arches repeated above the trough on the back wall;, stone flagged and cobbled floor. Access by mid-C20 spiral staircase in south-west corner to first floor; double-purlin roof in three bays with tie beam, collar beam and windbraces; square panelled cross and spine walls supporting mechanism for clock and former loft (floor removed); fireplaces in end walls with plain, massive lintels.
Listing NGR: SJ8103541258
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