Description

SJ 70 NE TONG C.P. NEACHLEY LANE, Ruckley (West side).

6/46 Stable Block approximately - 20 metres to North-East of Ruckley Grange.

GV II

Stable Block. Circa 1904, by Sir Ernest George and Yates. Roughcast with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Rectangular courtyard plan with North tower and entrance at North-West corner; free Neo-Elizabethan style. 1 storey to North and East and 2 storeys to South and West. Parapeted gable ends and 3 roughcast stacks with cornices. Wooden mullioned and transomed leaded casements. South range: 5 bays. Central entrance with large unmoulded keyed round arch, gabled loft above with boarded door, roof swept down on brackets to right, and central cupola with tile hung base, clock to front, 2-light belfry openings and ogee tile cap with weathervane. Tower: 3 storeys, bracketed cornice, and coped stepped battlemented parapet. Square plan, slightly tapering. Second floor with 3 slit openings on each face; first floor with circular keyed openings to North and West, and boarded loft door to South; ground floor 2-light leaded casements. Courtyard entrance with 2 ogee capped gatepiers and 2 boarded gates with ramped top rail. This building displays many features influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement. N. Pevsner, B.O.E. Shropshire, p.237.

Listing NGR: SJ7800006657

External Links

• Wikidata Q26305321

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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