Description

SU 62 SE EAST MEON WESTBURY

2/6 Stables to Westbury House

16.3.54 II

Stables and coachouses. C18, with mid C19 minor changes and rear extensions.
Red brickwork in Flemish bond, with blue headers to north and south walls and
flemish Garden Wall bond at the rear; plinth, 1st floor bands to end blocks,
brick dentil eaves, cambered arches to windows. Tile roof. Symmetrical west
front, with central blind arcade (masking a hay-loft above stables) of seven
bays, the centre with a deep recess containing doors at each side (to stables) and
in the centre (to tackroom), and a high door to the loft. Each bay has a window,
and a Diocletian light at the top of the 2nd and 6th bay. At each side there is
a tall square tower, appearing as two but masking three storeys, with a ground-
floor carriage arch flanked by blank openings (altered on the south side) the
north tower has a clock face, and the pyramid roof has at the rear a leaded dormer,
which contains the bell (the mechanism from bell to clock extending across the top
floor, within a boarded case). At the rear there are small C19 extensions, and
added chimneys.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26634276

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