Description

WOLSINGHAM LEAZES LANE
NZ 03 NE
(North end, off)
Wolsingham
22/375 Stable block of
Fawnlees House and
mounting, block
GV II

Stable block and coachman's house, with mounting block, now garage and house.
Dated 1843. Painted rough render with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with
ashlar and brick chimneys; stone-flagged roof on left extension. T-plan with
left extension. Main building: 2 storeys, 7 bays, the central wider and
projecting under low gable. Central boarded double vehicle entrance under
fanlight with vertical glazing bars in elliptical-headed arch with keystone
and stepped voussoirs; dated 1843 on keystone. Pivoted light above in similar
surround has glazing bars and radial head. Boarded door in plain stone surround
at centre of right 3 bays; 2-light windows at right and in all first-floor bays
have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills, as have 3 ground-floor
sashes, with paired lights, in left part; those in outer bays have segmental
heads. Hipped roof has brick chimney over left ridge and octagonal ashlar
chimney with plinth and cornice on right ridge. Central weather-vane has large
bronze fox finial, partly eroded at time of survey.

Left set-back extension one storey, 3 bays, with boarded vehicle door at left;
central boarded door, and right sash with late C19 glazing bars, have flat
stone lintels and projecting stone sill.

Stone mounting block in front of right end window of stable building.

Listing NGR: NZ0624938480

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26526580

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)