Description

EAST TISTED ROTHERFIELD PARK
SU 63 SE
4/2 Stable Block south west
of the House

GV II

Stables and coachhouse, now garage and stores. Early and mid C19. Brick and
slate. Plain buildings on 3 sides of a courtyard, with a more ornamental
treatment of the (outer) east elevation, seen with the west range of the house.
A central tower with cupola, above a carriage archway, flanked by wings of 3
bays; this general form can be discerned in a perspective sketch of the
original scheme by Joseph Parkinson, but the tower was raised in the late C19,
apparently re-using the cupola. East elevation: symmetrical. The tall tower
has an octagonal arcaded cupola with an ogee cap, and a crenellated and
machicolated parapet,walls of Flemish bond with blue headers, a band (original
parapet base?) above 2 small windows with hood moulds (now filled), and a
carriage arch of Tudor form, with hood mould and deep splay. Low pitched
hipped roof, continuing at a lower level above the other 2 ranges, one with
malmstone walls (of the original building?). On each side there are small
lancets within deep splays, separated by slender stepped buttresses. Interior:
the stalls remain, the large central arch being open to the courtyard but filled
at the outer face. The building marks the south end of a group of towers, which
dominate the unusual skyline of Rotherfield Park, as seen from the east.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588866

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)