Description

Mid 19th century. Single storey, 7-bay square-plan, courtyard stable block with 2-storey chamfered square corner pavilions to rear; polished ashlar sandstone. Base course, moulded eaves course below plain blocking course, rolled hood moulding to openings.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 7-bay. Regular fenestration with entrance archway to centre, canted corner bays. Tudor arch gateway with parapet and block pediment and flanking arrow slits to centre.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 7 bays. 3 small windows to centre bay flanked by paired large timber mullioned and transomed windows; 2-storey corner pavilions, narrow rectangular windows except single square window to centre ground.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7 bays, irregular fenestration; Tudor arch door with rolled moulding to reveal and steps to outer right at immediate left of 2-storey pavilion.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7 bays, irregular fenestration, 2-storey bay to far left.

Modern stained timber sash and case windows (lying pane). Grey slate piended roofs, lead flashing; cast-iron rainwater goods with square hoppers. Velux rooflights

COURTYARD: symmetrical, 5-bay. Tudor-arch carriage entrance with shouldered pediment to centre bay, flanking swept shouldered parapets; regularly articulated rectangular windows and carriage entrances.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

Statement of Interest

The Coltness Estate was bought by wealthy Yorkshire mill owners the Houldsworths in 1836 who hoped to move into the coal and iron industries. They carried out an extensive improvement programme between 1850 and 1870 (both architectural and agricultural). Hyslop's 1856 map of the estate shows the original Jacobean Coltness House with pencil lines marked on illustrating the Houldsworths' planned improvements to the house (which included a new 200ft long picture gallery), the landscaping, the onion-domed hot houses, the extant Tudor stable block and lodges, the mills and Mains Farm. All but a few of these buildings were demolished with the house in the 1970s.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17826456

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)