Description

LEEK

SJ95NE WESTWOOD PARK AVENUE
611-1/1/139 (West side)
10/03/75 Stable block at Westwood Hall Farm

II

Stable block. c1780. Brick with plain-tiled and slate roofs.
Symmetrically planned with 3-bay central block linked by
curtain wall (with later lean-to stabling) to outer single-bay
pavilions.
EXTERIOR: one and two storeys central range has advanced
pedimented central gable, with full-height relieving arch over
central round-arched doorway. Circular pitching-eye above,
with stone dressings and keystones. Brick string course
pediments the gable. Inserted window alongside doorway. Single
round-arched doorways in outer bays, and simple brick circular
pitching-eyes above. Inserted doors and windows each side.
Outer pavilions have round-arched doorways flanking windows
with segmental brick heads, round-arched upper window in
left-hand pavilion, inserted window to right. Round-headed
windows in rear elevation, which is articulated as
1-1-2-1-2-1-1 bays, mirroring the main elevation with pediment
over central bay of principal building.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The stables form part of a courtyard farm complex, apparently
laid out and planned in the later C18 incoporating traces of
earlier buildings, and extended subsequently by the insertion
of buildings in the central space.

Listing NGR: SJ9662756220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558851

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]