Description

TOFT C.P. (Off) HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD
SJ 77 NE

2/112 Stable block c. 20 yards
west of Toft Hall.
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G.V. II

Stable block. Late C18. Red English garden wall bond brick work with
slate roof and timber and lead clock turret and bell-cote. Two
storeys, L-shaped plan. Courtyard frontage: L-shaped with two wings
forming a roughly symmetrical facade the central feature of which is
placed in the angle cutting across it at 45°. This has a cambered
arch to the ground floor. Within is a cambered window of 3 x 2 sash
panes and a cambered headed door to the left with hinge dressings.
First floor window of 3 x 2 sash panes with cambered head. Stone
parapet above with gutter holes to sides. Octagonal clock turret to
roof with leaded sides and octagonal domed bell cote above which has
wooden pillars and railings of x-pattern. To each side of this
central feature are ranges of 4 bays, those two nearest the centre
each having two ground floor windows of 3 x 4 sash panes with cambered
heads and oval windows to first floor with stone surrounds and
cross-pattern glazing. Each side then projects slightly, that to
right having a cambered headed stable door with stone hinge dressings
to left and an undivided similar doorway to right. Blind first floor
stone window sill to left and 3 x 2 pane sash window in similar
surround to right. The left hand side has a similar arrangement of
doors reversed and they are here placed closer together allowing for a
ground floor window of 3 x 4 sash panes with cambered head to the
left. First floor window of 3 x 2 lights at left and loft doorway
with stone sill to right. To left of left hand side and slightly
recessed are four further bays with stone surrounded oval openings to
first floor, the lateral ones blocked. Two cambered headed central
doorways to ground floor with sash windows of 3 x 2 panes to either
side. To the right of the right hand block and slightly recessed are
three bays with lateral oval openings at first floor level, the left
hand one blocked, the right hand one with cross-pattern glazing and a
loft door to the centre. Five C20 openings to ground floor under iron
girder, the three openings to left have double doors, the two to right
now infilled with brick and having C20 windows of 3 x 4 panes.
Further single storey C20 addition to right.

Listing NGR: SJ7535276325

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96276569

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