Description

COMBE MARTIN RECTORY ROAD, Combe Martin
SS 54 NE
1/156 Stables, courtyard walls and
- gate-piers immediately east
of the Old Rectory
- II
Stable and coach house with adjoining courtyard wall and gate-piers. Dated 1846.
Local stone rubble. Steeply pitched slate roof with coped gable ends.
Plan: overall rectangular on plan. Stabling for 5 horses to the right and an
integral coach house to the left with a hay loft over the whole. It faces a
courtyard at the rear of the Old Rectory q.v. which is enclosed by a wall adjoining
the left-hand corner of the coach house with a carriageway through flanked by gate-
piers.
Exterior: 2 storeys. The entrance to the stables at the centre with a loft door
above in the central gable; C19 plank doors and lintel with date inscribed. Two 2-
light ovolo-moulded wooden mullion windows to the right and similar but single-light
window to the left of the doorway and the coach house to the extreme left which is
timber-framed above with boarded panels with later pigeon holes. C20 garage doors
in the place of the original coach house doors.
Stone rubble wall adjoining left, enclosing the left side of the stable yard behind
the Old Rectory. The gate-piers in the wall are square on plan and have necking
mould and caps.
Interior of the stables has original low stall partitions, wooden mangers and
troughs lined in lead.

Listing NGR: SS5838845874

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462298

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Recommended Books

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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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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)