Description

MADRON
SW 43 SW
6/112 Coach House, stables, associated
- courtyard walls, gatepiers and
mounting block
GV II
Coach house, stables, associated courtyard, gatepiers and mounting block. Circa late
C18 or early C19, extended circa late C19. Granite ashlar coach house, some pebble-
dashed stucco and granite rubble with granite dressings. Hipped scantle slate roofs
to older parts, dry Delabole slate roofs to later stables and grooms accommodation.
Over the right hand gable of the grooms accommodation is a clock with bellcote.
Plan: overall irregular L-shaped plan: original 3-bay coach house middle; former
stables with groom's accommodation over, left, and with wing at right angles in
front, far left, remodelled to ground floor and stuccoed circa late C19; at right a
double depth groom's or tack house with integral range of 4 stables adjoining set
back on right with openings at rear. Open smaller shed at right angles to rear
left.
Exterior: 2 storeys except for late C19 single-storey stables. 1:3:1 bay east front
plus stable ranges left and right. 3-bay coach house with triangular pediment over
central bay. Segmental arches over the 3 ground floor doorways, possibly original
12-pane hornless sashes to first floor and later horned sashes inserted to left and
right hand doorways. Stables, left, have original 16-pane hornless sashes to first
floor openings and later 9-pane horned sashes below. Projecting slightly at right is
groom's house with late C19 tripartite window to gorund floor and similar dormered
window above. Original horned sashes. The stables far right have their original
doors, hopper windows and shelter roof carried on iron brackets.
Interior not inspected.
Associated walls flanking and parallel to front have ashlar piers surmounted by
pyramidal caps. Mounting block against front wall, far right.

Listing NGR: SW4448031479

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436435

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey