Description

TL 4614 HIGH WYCH BAKERS LANE
(south side)
High Wych Village

16/2 Stable Block at Bakers
Farm adjacent to W end
of house

GV II

Stable block. 1891 for Mr E B Barnard of Grove Lodge to N, a
racehorse owner. Brick rough rendered with red tile roofs and
rendered crow-stepped gables rising above roofs, and having ball
finials on the bottom steps. L-shaped stable block in Arts and
Craft style, apparently Scottish in derivation. One and a half
storeys centre with single storey ranges to E and W and return
range, running S from W end. Each part marked off by the crow-
stepped gables. Plain, pitch roofed, wooden louvres over lower
ranges, but square tapered louvre, with wooden louvred stage
above rendered base with projecting cornice. Gabled,
bargeboarded, tiled roof tops louvred stage and has wrought iron
finial. Small paned bullioned 2-light, small, sash windows with
6/6 panes. W range has 3 segmental headed stable doors breaking
through eaves, with 18-paned fanlights above doors. Carved
wooden hatchment on centre block 'AD 1891. EBB'. Stone roll
moulding as string course across centre block continuing line of
eaves of flanking buildings. Decorative iron plates in the form
of a cross in regular pattern on external walls are anchorages
for tethering rings on the inside. Heavy bargeboards to S and W
end gables. Sash windows recessed with 6/6 panes, with pair at W
gable. N elevation to lane uninterrupted except for row of
regularly spaced ventilators with an iron cross below each.
Crow-stepped gable over loading door to central hay loft, with
projecting hoisting-beam and recessed plank door.

Listing NGR: TL4625014416

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514883

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House