Description

SO 78 NE
1576- /7/10004

ENVILLE
FOUR ASHES
Stable Court at Four Ashes Hall

GV
II*

Stable Court, incorporating extensive farm outbuilding ranges. Mid to late C18, with C20
alterations. Red brick rising from a shallow ashlar plinth with gauged brick detailing and
ashlar dressings, moulded eaves and parapet cornice,coped gables and plain tile and welsh
slate roof coverings. Courtyard plan, with stable front intended as the architectural focus
within the same vista as Four Ashes Hall (q.v.).South-east elevation;2 storeys,11 bays; the
central part of7 bays, with advanced 2-bay ends with hipped roofs behind shallow parapets.
Roof structure to left end partially collapsed. Central entry bay, with wide semi-circular
arched entry to flanking stables and central harness room via recessed doorway. Gauged
brickwork to arch, with ashlar impost band and keyblock. Above cornice band, a shallow
gabled front to crossroof which carries an octagonal lantern with lead-covered dome and
semi-circular headed lights. Flanking the entrance are 3-bay blind arcades, with semi-circular
windows with intersecting glazing bars to arch heads serving stables. Above are rectangular
windows with intersecting bars below gauged brick wedge lintels. Advanced ends with 2
ground floor arches and 2 first floor windows to hipped ends. Inner cheek walls with 2 first
floor windows above inserted C20 garage doors. North-east range with blocked tall
segmental-arched double doorway to left end. To the right are 4 lower arched cart doorways
with boarded doors, and a taller arched doorway giving access to the courtyard entry passage.
Further right are 2 tiers of circular openwork brick vents,3 vents per tier, and a third tall
doorway serving a threshing bay with boarded doors and a threshold. Further 2 tiers of vents,
and gable at right end with 2 tiers of vents and apex pierced by diamond vents. North-west
wall with tiered vents and one double doorway. South-west elevation with access way into
courtyard, single storey range to left, 2 storey range to right. Similar detail to courtyard inner
walls, together with arcaded single storey hovel to south-west side and to part of north-east
range. Interiors include unaltered stalls to stable range, boarded doors and thresholds to
threshing bay, and asymmetrical roof trusses to roof with single purlin and double purlin
construction on opposed slopes with queen posts, collar and tie beams and diagonal braces
all of substantial scantling. An ambitious and well -executed design to create an integrated
range of outbuildings incorporating stabling and firm building functions.

Listing NGR: SO7990387719

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545004

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