Description

EDENHAM GRIMSTHORPE PARK
TF 02 SW
Stable block
6/119
30.10.68
G.V. II

Former stables and riding school, now 2 flats and garages. Late
C17, possibly altered by Sir John Vanbrugh, remodelled 1959 by R.
J. Page. Ashlar, Collyweston hipped roof with lead dressings, 2
ashlar ridge stacks with moulded tops. 2 storey, 9 bay front
arranged 3:3:3, the middle 3 bays being recessed. First floor
band, plain parapet. Central rusticated basket carriage arch
with stepped keyblocks, with panelled doors, flanked by single
side panelled doorways with plain ashlar surrounds and keyblocks.
Beyond are single panelled doors with plain overlights having
eared architraves with stepped keyblocks, flanked by single
glazing bar sashes. To first floor are 2 keyed blank oculi with
beyond further single plain oculi which are flanked by glazing
bar sashes. To the centre of the parapet a scrolled cartouche
bears the date of 1959 and the Ancaster cypher, surmounted by a
coronet. Probably part of the building works commissioned by the
Second Earl of Lindsey after the Restoration in 1660.

Listing NGR: TF0448522864

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26459830

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)