Description

CALSTOCK GUNNISLAKE
SX 4271-4371
7/105 Stable buildings with attached
gate piers and kitchen garden
23.1.68 walls about 10 metres south of
Sandhill House (formerly listed as
stable or old chapel)
GV II
Stable buildings with attached gate piers and kitchen garden walls. Late C18 with
later alterations. Slatestone rubble with granite and brick dressings. Asbestos
slate roofs, hipped over the stable.
Plan: There are 2 buildings, forming the east and west sides of the stable yard,
enclosed by a wall with gate piers to south ; the building to west is a cart shed
with loft over, with folly/tower attached to front right. The building to east is a
stable/coach house with open-fronted cart shed attached at the right end. Attached
to west of the stable yard is the wall enclosing a roughly rectangular kitchen
garden.
The western building is 2-storey, with 2 double doorways at ground floor and C18 12-
pane sash at first floor. Row of square brick pigeon holes with slate perches and
granite datestone of 1637, probably re-sited. Door and single light to right with
segmental brick arches. The tower is to right, with external stone stair to the
front door, upper blocked window and window with triangular arch to left. Embattled
parapet with granite pinnacles. Door to right in the main range. At the right end
is a 3-light wooden Perpendicular style window with 4-centred arch and hood mould.
The left and has blocked door, 2 upper window openings and rows of brick pigeon holes
with slate perches in the gable end. At the rear, the wall has been rebuilt with 2
straight joints, possibly incorporating an earlier stable building. Loading door at
upper level.
The eastern building is a stable/coach house, with 2 open bays at the right end ;
these bays have round brick piers with convex granite caps. To left, a double door
and 2 single doors, and 4-pane sash, all with granite lintels and keystones.
The stable yard walls are in rubble, with pair of square rubble piers at the south
end, about 4 metres high with stone pyramidal caps.
The kitchen garden walls are in rubble with rubble coping, about 4 metres high, with
plain pilasters at intervals. The walls are about 30 metres by 40 metres, and partly
demolished at the southern side.

Listing NGR: SX4275771188

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614612

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