Description

SJ 63 SE MARKET DRAYTON C.P. STAFFORD STREET (south-east side)

9/95 Stable block approx. 20 metres to north- east of The Grove GV II

Stable block. Circa 1770. Red brick with hipped plain tile roof. U-plan, at right angles to road. 2 storeys. Dentil brick eaves cornice. Central square wooden cupola with keyed round arches and ogee lead dome with globe finial and weathervane. 2:4:2 bays. Central break has wide open triangular-pedimented gable with circular wooden clock in tympanum. Wooden cross windows with gauged-brick heads (blocked to first floor). 2 central bays with blocked first- floor lunettes above ground-floor round-arched doorways, that to left blocked and that to right with pair of boarded doors. Boarded door in second bay from left with 2-part rectangular overlight. Pair of flanking wings at right-angles, that to left of one storey with brick ridge stack and altered openings and tht to right of 2 storeys with various boarded doors and lozenge-shaped honeycomb vents in gable end. Rear: 8 bays. Segmental-headed pair of boarded doors just off-centre to left. End walls of main block of 2 bays. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ6811734449

External Links

• Wikidata Q26594266

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