Description

SK 54 74 and SK 55 74 HOLBECK RIDING SCHOOL ROAD
Welbeck Estate
Village
(South side)

11/103 Motor Yard,
Bursars Court,
Japonica Lodge
and attached
buildings

G.V. II

Stabling, now flats and garages, and lodge. c.1860. Ashlar.
Shaped tile roofs. Coped gables with kneelers and mannerist style
orb finials. Many stacks. Moulded eaves bands. Set on a
plinth. Quadrangle plan with wing to the rear right and lodge
projecting from the rear right of this, thus forming a secondary,
smaller quadrangle. One and a half storeys. South front, main
quadrangle, 6 bays. Central projecting gabled bay with central
vermiculated rusticated carriage archway and bracket keystone,
flanked by single vermiculated rusticated pilasters supporting an
architrave with 2 similar half finials. Either side are 3 large
arched doorways with panelled wooden doors, rusticated surrounds
and keystones. Above is a single glazing bar sash in raised
ashlar surround with keystone and decorative ashlar scroll at
each corner, 2 consoles support a slightly projecting hood with
decorative strapwork over. Flanked by 2 small glazing bar sashes.
The projecting 8 bay wings have similar doorways and
fenestration. Completing the quadrangle is a coped wall broken
by central pair of piers. The east front of 13 bays has 2
projecting gabled bays each with single glazing bar sash,
keystone, flanking marginal sashes and single vermiculated
rusticated pilasters with architrave and orbs over. The
southern most bay has a further pair of vermiculated rusticated
pilasters between sash and marginal sashes. Above are single
glazing bar sashes in similar surrounds to that of the centre
south. Remaining openings are either glazing bar sashes or
recessed panels. Attached via a coped wall with Tudor style
arched doorway is a single storey plus attic 3 bay lodge. West
front with central gabled bay. Central 2-light casement with
Tudor style arched doorway and hood mould to the left, and single
similar, smaller casements to the right and above. Casements
with drip moulds. Attached to the right via a C20 lean-to is a
single, gabled 2 storey bay. Beyond, to the right, is a coped
wall, and behind is the secondary courtyard which has several
glazing bar sashes, carriage doorways in rusticated surrounds
with keystones and doorways with rusticated jambs and keystones.
The right wing of the quadrangle, with glazing bar sashes and
recessed panels, projects and has a single central projecting
gabled bay similar to the centre south front.

Listing NGR: SK5543674194

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26517302

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)