Description

SK 10 NE FISHERWICK C.P. FISHERWICK PARK

7/92 Fisherwick Hall Farmhouse and attached former coach house and stable block - II

Former coach house, stables and accommodation for grooms. Circa 1770 by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for Lord Donegal, partly remodelled circa 1810 probably by John Buonarotti Papworth for Lord Spencer. Red brick with ashlar plinth, sill bands and eaves cornice; slate roofs; brick ridge stack and rendered off-ridge and integral end stacks. Roughly Z-shaped plan; the former stable range is aligned north-east/south-west facing south-east and is linked to the present farmhouse range, which is on the same alignment, by the former coach house range aligned north-west/ south-east facing south-west; the coach house and stable ranges define two sides of a courtyard to the south-west. Farmhouse: south-east front: painted white;2 storeys with moulded plinth and eaves cornice; 2:2:2 bays, central pedimented break and slightly lower flanking wings, there is a slim buttress to each extremity, glazing bar sashes with raised keystones and sill bands, the lower band is moulded, some of the windows were inserted circa 1810 but may be reused from Fisherwick Hall (demolished). The central break has a central C20 glazed door flanked by windows of circa 1810, door and windows are set within blocked semi-circular arches with heavy keystones; windows of circa 1810 to the ground floor of the right hand wing where they interrupt the sill band, and to the left hand wing, first floor right, there were four ground floor windows to the left hand wing, 3 are blocked, a C20 door to the right of centre occupies the position of the fourth, the head of which survives as an over-light to the door. Courtyard elevations: coach house range to the right, stable range at right angles to the left. Coach house range: 2 storeys with loft band and moulded eaves cornice; 4:1:4 bays, central pedimented break with rusticated ashlar to the ground floor and central carriage entrance, above the entrance is a blind semi-circular arch containing a lunette, the pediment contains a roundel with moulded edge, formerly a clock. To each side of the central break are-segmental carriage arches springing from an impost band, the arches have gauged brick heads, square loft openings with stone sills and gauged heads. Stable range: 2 storeys with moulded eaves cornice; 10 bays, blocked semi-circular ground floor arches, which spring from an impost band contain inserted doors and windows, square loft windows with gauged heads. The stables and coach house formerly served Fisherwick Hall which was built by Brown between 1766 and 1774 and demolished circa 1810. Colvin, p. 102 and p. 440.

Listing NGR: SK1742009832

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