Description

KIRK ELLA

TA 02 NW TRANBY RIDE
1459/9/10013 Anlaby
14-MAY-01 (West side)
Former Stableblock to Tranby Croft

GV II

Stableblock. 1874. Designed by C R Chorley of Leeds. White brick with orange brick dressings. Hipped Welsh slate roofs with bracket eaves and various brick. Orange brick cill and lintel bands. Segment arched orange brick lintels and plain sashes throughout. Deep orange brick plinth. Quadrangular plan with 4 storey tower at the north-east corner.
Main eastern front has central rounded entrance archway with large wooden panel gates. Arch has pilasters with moulded ashlar capitals and prominent ashlar keystone inscribed WA 1874. Above two round headed sash windows. Single storey wings either side have single sashes, then pairs of narrow sashes and beyond again sinfle sashes.
Tower at north-east corner has four storeys. Ground floor has single round headed sashes to the north and east faces with orange brick bands. First floor ashlar and brick band and single round headed sashes to each face with orange brick bands. Second floor has a large round arch to each face with two round headed sashes in each. Arched corbel table band with above three round arches each with a single smaller sash. Pyramidal slate roof with bracketed corbel table.
Inner courtyard has single storey stable ranges around three sides. The two storey western range has projecting gabled centre with round headed doorway flanked by blind arches, above two broad sashes. Gable topped by square wooden cupola with clock, arcade and leaded square dome with weather vane.
This stableblock was built to serve Tranby Croft for Arthur Wilson.

Listing NGR: TA0229628290

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561447

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)