Description

ST 9958 POTTERNE WORTON ROAD

14/178 Stables at Manor House

GV II

Stable block, 1800 using materials from demolished building of
1750, red brick with some diaper patterns, hipped slate roof and
octagonal timber cupola with ogee-cap and large weathervane. Two
storeys with projecting shallow-gabled centre and nogged brick
band. Front has seven ashlar keyed oval lights variously
dispersed, presumably reused, those to upper floor set horizontally
with tripartite leaded lights, those on ground floor set vertically
with leaded cross lights. Centre projection has blank panel in
gable, first floor oval and 2 elliptical arched coach entries, with
ashlar flush keystones and imposts. Sides each have one first
floor centre oval and ground floor door in raised moulded stone
surround with keystone, flanked by oval each side. Tudor-style
brick chimney on rear roof slope. Rear wall has 4 cambered-head
blank panels. The reused parts are said to have come from a folly
called Maggot's Castle built at Easterton, Wilts in 1750.

Listing NGR: ST9896258288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562840

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  For the Record