Building record 1230/4/2 - Stables at Tabley House

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58562 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Former stable block, now complex of twenty-one dwellings, c1760, substantially remodelled and extended 1995-6, by John Carr, Red brick, laid to Flemish bond, with stone dressings and green slate roof with lead flashings, Rectangular courtyard plan. South front: twenty-three bays in length with lateral slightly projecting wings of three bays. Stone bands between floors. Central courtyard portal with shouldered stone surround and consoles to sides supporting a cornice. The portal was widened in the early twentieth century to accommodate motor vehicles. Windows to either side have horned sash frames of three by four panes to ground floor, and three by two panes to the first floor, all with splayed heads and stone cills. Apart from the outward-facing elevations, the remaining parts of the complex have been remodelled, internally and externally, and extended within the courtyard, to provide domestic facades, using twentieth century components and materials. However, the building remains listed for group value, in recognition of the importance of its massing and exterior character to the setting of Tabley House (qv).