Description

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SP 82 SE
6/84

WING
ASCOTT
Ascott House
Hunting Stables

(Formerly listed as Hunting Stables, ASCOTT)

II
Ranges of stables and lodgings around a courtyard with former coach-house to centre of north east range, and south east range converted to garages. After 1874, by George Devey, for Leopold de Rothschild.

Red brick,whitewashed render and half-timbering to main gables and upper part of courtyard walls, tile-hung gables over some upper windows. Moulded bressumers and bargeboards. Tiled roofs. One and a half and two storeys. Casement windows with moulded wooden mullions.

First floor windows on courtyard side all break through the eaves, alternate ones with gables. Half-glazed doors. Doors to exterior of south west range have lean-to tiled hoods with tile-hung sides on brackets with turned balusters in spandrels. Entrance at south west corner has brick walls ramped up to square brick piers with octagonal stone caps, and elaborate flanking gables. Gable to left has two-storey canted bay window with leaded lights. Gable to right has half-timbering with arched panels and is jettied above and below upper window.

Listing NGR: SP8920322986

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26409647

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)