Description

ELTON CP ELTON
SO 47 SE
4/33 Stables adjoining
Elton Hall to
the north
GV II
Stables, now store and dining room. Mid-C18 (or earlier) with mid-C19 and
late C20 alterations. Part timber-framed with rendered infill, part hand-
made brick; plain tiled roofs with gable-end parapets and kneelers. H-plan;
central range of six framed bays aligned north/south with two-bay cross-
wings at each end. Mainly two levels with three-course band between levels
at front gable ends of cross-wings. Framing: mainly two rows of panels at
upper level of main range with some large rectangular panels at south end.
West front elevation: there is a multi-paned square window on the ground
floor level of the main range, two narrow leaded rectangular lights on the
upper level of the south gable end and also a door in the angle of the north
wing with the main part. A blocked diamond shaped opening in the apex of the
south gable is said to have been a dovecote originally. Main entrances at rear.
There is a rear wing adjoining the north cross-wing and the east gable end of
the south cross-wing has been linked to Elton Hall (qv) by a single-storey
addition. Interior: the roof has been partly rebuilt and has intermediate
tie-beam trusses with two main convex struts and similar subsidiary struts
in he lower angles. (RCHM, Herefs, Vol III, p 57).

Listing NGR: SO4579171069

Selected Sources

• Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 57

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