Description

CHULMLEIGH SS 61 SE 5/11 Stables south of Colleton Manor - II*

Stable range. Circa early C17, altered in circa late C19, Coursed and dressed local sedimentary stone. Slate roof with later granite coping to the gable ends. Plan: Rectangular on plan with a doorway at the centre of both front and back walls; the rear (north) doorway now blocked. At the left hand (east) end there is an extension (a tack room) and probably a cartshed which is now incorporated into the adjoining gamekeeper's cottage qv. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical north front facing the house. Central doorway with late C19 plank door and C19 2-light casements with glazing bars on ground floor, one to the left and two to the right. On the first floor to the right a loading door with late C19 plank door; all with cement rendered wooden lintels. At the left set back slightly a small slit window on the ground floor with hollow chamfer and round head with a hoodlmould. The west gable end has a large late C19 or early C20 mullion - transom window with leaded panes. The south elevation has a blocked central doorway and blocked ground floor window to left and right. Interior: 5 large chamfered cross-beams with step stops, those at the ends are half-beams. The stall are C19 and on the front wall and in the tack room there are large wooden pegs. The tack room has a small Gothic cast-iron fire-grate in the corner. The original 3-bay roof survives; 2 raised cruck trusses with 3 ties of threaded purlins, the lower purlin at wall plate level, threaded diagonal ridgepiece and cranked collars mortice and tenoned to the principals. The common-rafters have been replaced.

Listing NGR: SS6688114611

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)