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DALTON HOLME DALTON PARK SE 94 NE 2/26 The Stables at Dalton Hall 7.2.68 GV II Stable block. Late C18, with mid C19 entrance front. Red and grey brick, slate roofs. Quadrangular plan. Main front of 7 bays in symmetrical elevation. Centre bay is rusticated and breaks forward slightly to round- headed opening in rusticated surround with slight inward batter. To right and to left are 3 smaller round-headed openings with fanlights with radial glazing in rusticated surrounds: above in the short sections of wall between each opening are keyed oculus windows in rusticated surrounds. Bracketed cornice. Balustraded parapet. Over the central door is a low gabled clock tower with rusticated quoins, a clock face, and oversailing eaves beneath a louvred timber lantern with keyed round headed openings beneath a cornice capped by a pyramidal lead dome and weather-vane. The opposing range has an inward facing elevation of 5 giant round-headed openings with impost band, the outer pairs with boarded double-leaf doors under panelled overdoors. Blank segmental- headed openings with sills to first-floor level. The ranges to north and south have boarded doors with overlight with vertical glazing bars alternating with 12-pane sashes with sills to the ground floor, and 6-pane sashes with sills to the first floor. All openings are under segmental brick arches. Dentilled brick eaves cornice, axial stacks. Interior: the stables retain a complete set of late C19 loose boxes and fittings in excellent condition.

Listing NGR: SE9543445200

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