Description

BENACRE BENACRE PARK
TM 58 SW
4/5 Benacre Hall Stables
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GV II

Stables and coach houses to Benacre Hall. 1763-4 by Matthew Brettingham. Red
brick; roof slated to main facade, and with black pantiles to the courtyard.
2 storeys. Arranged to form 3 sides of a quadrangle, the open side being to
the east. Symmetrical 7-bay entrance front, arranged 3:1:3, the central bay
set forward and pedimented, with a semi-circular arched carriage entrance.
The flanking bays have smaller blind arches on the ground floor, and there is
a brick band at springing level across the whole facade. At first floor level
there are small square sash windows with square-leaded panes. Brick dentil
eaves cornice. On the roof over the entrance is a square clock tower and a
bell turret on 8 slender columns, with ogee roof surmounted by a wind vane.
Inside the courtyard are various 6-panel doors, some with large 3-centre
arched fanlights with Y-tracery; some ground floor lunette windows; 6 3-centre
arched carriage entrances with original doors and a 7th in a later extension.
Leaded casement windows to first floor. The interior fittings are said to be
intact. A fine and remarkably unaltered example of C18 stabling.

Listing NGR: TM5043283874

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283487

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)