Description

SJ 71 SW SHERRIFHALES C.P. -

3/1 Former Stable Block - adjoining Lilleshall Hall Gatehouse to North.

GV II

Stable block, now gymnasium inter alia. Circa 1829-32 by Sir Jeffry Wyatville in a Tudor Gothic style with circa 1920 alterations. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Irregular pentagonal plan with ringed to North, East and West around central courtyard with entrance to South. Plinth, buttresses, coped parapeted gable ends with obelisk finials, 1½ stories. Stone mullioned and transomed windows with returned hoodmoulds. South front: 2 angled gabled wings with attic lancets, ground floor cross windows, and screen wall between approximately 2 metres high with chamfered coping and 2 square gatepiers. North fronts irregular 7 window front. Central projecting gabled entrance with narrow window in apex, first floor 4 light mullioned window with blank stone panel beneath, and two 4 centred archways with 2 pairs of boarded door. 2 bays to left and right with gabled eaves dormers and ground floor cross windows, those to right with later 4 panelled door between. 2 outer projecting gabled wings, that to right with first floor lancet, and ground floor 6 light window; that to left with 3 light mullioned windows on each floor, 4 centred boarded door to right, and right hand return front with ground floor boarded door and gabled semi-dormer with boarded loft door. Walled entrance court to North approximately 2.5 metres high with chamfered coping and 2 square gatepiers to East with globe finials. Ballroom built in stable yard circa 1920, now used as gymnasium and entered from South (not included). B.O.E., Salop, p.l66.

Listing NGR: SJ7491414552

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