Description

WOOTTON
TA 01 NE
3/53 Stables and outbuildings,
screen wall, covered
passage and dairy
adjoining rear wing of
Wootton Hall
GV II

Stables, outbuildings, gateway, screen wall, covered passage and dairy.
1796 for John Uppleby with later alterations and additions. Brick with
Westmorland slate roof to west range, Welsh slates to east range. Ashlar
coping to screen wall. Plan: L-shaped east stable range facing courtyard,
adjoining west range and screen wall with lean-to forming covered passage
and dairy to rear wing of Wootton Hall (qv). Screen wall, north face:
plinth; segmental-arched doorway, 2-light window to dairy on right with 9-
pane sliding sash and vertical bars. Lean-to on south side supported on 3
square brick piers with ashlar coping: central pier freestanding, that to
left incorporated in dairy, that to right in C20 enclosed porch to west
range. West range, west front; single storey, 4 bays. Porch to left with
original inner 6-fielded-panel door in architrave. To right: 2 segmental-
arched windows, one with C20 casement, the other with original shutters;
inserted garage doors beneath timber lintel. Stepped and dentilled brick
eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Stable range, east side: single storey and
attic, 4-bay section to right has wide round-arched entrance to lobby in
left angle with 6-panel inner doors in architraves, including a tall round-
headed door to stable on right; blocked door to right flanked by single
windows with vertical glazing bars beneath segmental arches. Section at
right angles to left has pair of inserted garage doors beneath timber
lintels. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Hipped roof. North
side has blocked round-headed door, 6-pane sash in segmental-headed recessed
panel and 3 small 4-pane first-floor sashes with lintels at eaves level.
North gate to stableyard (qv) adjoins left angle. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TA0850416350

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397700

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