Description

GITTISHAM COMBE
SY 19 NW

7/144 Carriage house and stable blocks
- at Combe House

GV II

2 ranges of stables, a carriage house and wall and gatepiers comprising the stable
block at Combe House, the east stable block used for housing. Circa 1815, built for
the Reverend Thomas Putt who inherited in 1812 and died in 1832. The stable block
replaced earlier stabling south west of Combe House. Flint rubble with red brick
dressings, the front elevation of the carriage house large blocks of dressed flint
brought to course; slate roofs, the stable roofs hipped at ends.
Plan: U plan: 3 ranges round courtyard. Carriage house to north, facing south, with
2 matching ranges to the east and west, the end of the courtyard completed by a wall
with a gateway. An archway through the centre of the carriage house gives access to
the service yard at the rear of Combe House.
Exterior: Single-storey carriage house with an impressive symmetrical 5-bay south
front, gabled to the front in the centre above the round-headed archway which leads
through the centre of the building. Carved armorial bearings with elaborate mantling
in an oval stone frame in the gable. 2 round-headed archways to the carriage houses
to the left, 2 to the right with 2-leaf plank doors with big strap hinges. The rear
elevation of the carrriage house is also gabled in the centre but with brick rather
than flint dressings to the round-headed archway and to the frame of the oculus in
the gable which retains some of its original spoke glazing. The front elevations of
the lofted stable ranges are also gabled to the front in the centre with alternating
doors and windows in tall round-headed recesses on the ground floor, a loft loading
door in the central gable and loft windows to left and right in rectangular recesses.
The east stable range is used for housing with no central gable. The wall completing
the yard on the south side is flint rubble with square section gate-piers with
moulded cornices, one gate-pier retains an original ball finial.
Interior: The stable in the east range inspected. This retains a herringbone brick
floor and original loose box partitions with cast iron standards crowned with iron
acorn finials.
A fine example of an early C19 stable yard, group value with Combe House and
associated buildings.

Photograph in NMR.

Listing NGR: SY1430497850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570072

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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