Listing Text

SK 23 NW PARISH OF LONGFORD LONG LANE
6/28 (North Side)
13.6.67 Stableblock and coach house
at Longford Hall Farm
(formerly listed as 'Stabling
at Hall')
GV II*

Stableblock and coach house. Early C19 with minor C20 alterations. Built for Thomas
Coke of Longford Hall. Red brick in Flemish bond, with brick and stone dressings
and slate roofs. Stone plinth, continuous first floor stone bands, short stone bands
at impost level of all doors and windows, and a plain stone eaves band. U-plan. One
and a half storeys and one and a half storeys plus one. West elevation has east
elevation of five bays, the centre three advanced and with an extra storey breaking
above the roof with dentilled pediment. Centre three bays have two orders of blind
semi-circular headed arches, the lower ones with arch at half storey level. Ground floor
has semi-circular headed doorcase with plank door flanked by similarly headed case-
ment windows. Above three segment headed windows. Single bays with similar blind
arches and windows to either side of central block. Above again to centre three semi-
circular headed casement windows and in the centre of the pediment a clockface in
moulded stone surround. North and south ranges have similar five bay elevations
with five semi-circular headed blind arches, the two easternmost under pedimented
gables. South elevation of north range has semi-circular headed ground floor openings
reading from west to east, window, door, window, door, window. Above five segment
headed casements. South elevation similar except the lower openings of the three
western bays have been replaced by C20 sliding doors and a hoist platform has been
inserted at first floor level to the east. Beyond to east the gabled bays have
double plank doors to ground floor. Above five segment headed casements. Eastern
walls have pedmented gables and similar arrangement of openings in blind arch. Interior
of west and north ranges have groin vaulted ceilings to ground floor supported by
Tuscan columns, between which are handsome wooden and ironwork dividions. Doors
between the stables have raised and fielded panelling.

Listing NGR: SK2147438372