Listed Building: STABLE BLOCK CIRCA 20 YARDS WEST OF TOFT HALL (1329783)

TOFT C.P. (Off) HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD SJ 77 NE 2/112 Stable block c. 20 yards west of Toft Hall. G.V. II Stable block. Late C18. Red English garden wall bond brick work with slate roof and timber and lead clock turret and bell-cote. Two storeys, L-shaped plan. Courtyard frontage: L-shaped with two wings forming a roughly symmetrical facade the central feature of which is placed in the angle cutting across it at 45°. This has a cambered arch to the ground floor. Within is a cambered window of 3 x 2 sash panes and a cambered headed door to the left with hinge dressings. First floor window of 3 x 2 sash panes with cambered head. Stone parapet above with gutter holes to sides. Octagonal clock turret to roof with leaded sides and octagonal domed bell cote above which has wooden pillars and railings of x-pattern. To each side of this central feature are ranges of 4 bays, those two nearest the centre each having two ground floor windows of 3 x 4 sash panes with cambered heads and oval windows to first floor with stone surrounds and cross-pattern glazing. Each side then projects slightly, that to right having a cambered headed stable door with stone hinge dressings to left and an undivided similar doorway to right. Blind first floor stone window sill to left and 3 x 2 pane sash window in similar surround to right. The left hand side has a similar arrangement of doors reversed and they are here placed closer together allowing for a ground floor window of 3 x 4 sash panes with cambered head to the left. First floor window of 3 x 2 lights at left and loft doorway with stone sill to right. To left of left hand side and slightly recessed are four further bays with stone surrounded oval openings to first floor, the lateral ones blocked. Two cambered headed central doorways to ground floor with sash windows of 3 x 2 panes to either side. To the right of the right hand block and slightly recessed are three bays with lateral oval openings at first floor level, the left hand one blocked, the right hand one with cross-pattern glazing and a loft door to the centre. Five C20 openings to ground floor under iron girder, the three openings to left have double doors, the two to right now infilled with brick and having C20 windows of 3 x 4 panes. Further single storey C20 addition to right. Listing NGR: SJ7535276325