Description

STAINDROP FRONT STREET
NZ 1320
(South side)
18/139 Wall, gateway,
carriage-house and
stable attached to
Staindrop Hall

GV II

Yard wall with gateway, carriage house and stables. Third quarter C18.
Sandstone rubble withquoins and ashlar dressings; rear elevation rendered
sandstone rubble with quoins and brick and ashlar dressings; roof of graduated
Lakeland slate with ashlar chimney. 2 storeys, 3 bays and high wall attached
at left.

Wall has boarded pedestrian to left of high segmental-headed vehicle arch
with voussoirs; renewed boarded double doors; flat stone coping. Carriage-
house and stable has 3 high hit-and-miss loft openings with projecting stone
sills; hipped roof with left end chimney at eaves. South elevation to yard
shows boarded door and 2-pane overlight at left, and partly-glazed opening
between that and 2 segmental-headed coach entrances with boarded doors; 3 loft
openings, the 2 left boarded, the right a horizontal sliding sash with glazing
bars, have projecting stone sills. Right return has side stone steps, the ends
shaped to form continuous stepped curve, to first floor boarded door.

Interior: quadrant hay store at left of first door; circular hay racks to 4
stalls, 2 with mangers.

This stable block is in the style of some of those built at Raby Castle by J.
Paine. It balances the one-storey wing to Staindrop Hall which is adjacent
to the gateway.

Listing NGR: NZ1302220600

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414908

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  For the Record