Description

ACTON SCOTT

SO48NE Coach-house, stables and cowhouse 85
1312-1/10/1 metres north of Acton Scott Hall

GV II

Coach-house, stables and cowhouse. C18 with C19 additions.
Rubble central range, 2 wings of brick on coursed rubble
plinth and with ashlar chamfered plinth cap and quoins.
Plain-tile hipped and gabled roofs with ashlar coped gable
with pyramid finial and dentil course eaves on smaller wing.
U-shaped plan with central stable range, large coach-house
wing and smaller cowhouse wing.
EXTERIOR: single storey and loft. East front of stables with 2
restored boarded doors each with adjacent wood mullion and
transom window, all set in brick segmental arched openings. To
left at loft level is rubble stone dormer with 2 light
casement with leaded lights. South gable end with boarded loft
opening. Rear part covered by cowhouse wing. North gable
covered by coach-house.
Cowhouse: north front with boarded door to left and 2 light
casement to right, both in segmental arched openings. Boarded
loft opening to right. Ventilation slits in west gable end.
Coach house: doorway to left of south front with 2-panelled
door and rusticated ashlar quoins and flat lintel voussoirs
with raised shelved keystone flanked by 2 windows with
rusticated ashlar quoins and flat stone shelved lintel with
raised keystone. 2-light casement at each end at loft level.
Boarded door to rear with 2-stage chimney with brick upper
shaft.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4555689590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663156

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)