Stable Block of Middleton Lodge Middleton Tyas, England
Listed Building Data
Stable Block of Middleton Lodge has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1180037
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 4 February 1969
- Name
- STABLE BLOCK OF MIDDLETON LODGE
- Location
- STABLE BLOCK OF MIDDLETON LODGE, KNEETON LANE
- Parish
- Middleton Tyas
- District
- Richmondshire
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- NZ 22242 06845
- Easting
- 422242.0000
- Northing
- 506845.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
MIDDLETON TYAS KNEETON LANE NZ 20 NW (east side, off)
2/61 Stable Block of Middleton Lodge 4.2.69 (formerly listed as Stables and Coach-House at Middleton Lodge)
GV II
Stable block with stables, coach-houses and hayloft. c1780. By John Carr of York or John Foss of Richmond for George Hartley. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, Westmorland slate roofs. Built on 3 sides of a courtyard, of one and 2 storeys. Main elevation of central range (facing south-east): 3:3:3 bays. Central block of 2 storeys, with arcaded effect to ground floor achieved by continuous archivolt and imposts. Ashlar voussoirs to semicircular arches, the central one open forming carriageway, the outer ones with recessed blocking containing round-headed windows. First floor: 3 oculi in ashlar surrounds. Cornice. Hipped roof. Outer ranges, both alike: single storey. Central round-arched doorways, recessed as windows described before, with 6-panel leaved door below fanlight to left, board door below open tympanum to right; and archivolt continued as band over flanking round-arched windows. Cornice. Hipped roof to outer ends. Rear of central block: rubble above ashlar plinth. Ashlar surround to central archway. Ashlar mounting block to left. 2 first-floor square shuttered openings with ashlar surrounds. Inner elevation of left side range: 2- storey, 3-bay stables with ashlar plinth, 16-pane sash windows in ashlar surrounds flanking central round-arched ashlar surround with impost to board door below fanlight with radial glazing bars; 2-storey 2-bay coach-house with ashlar surrounds to coach archways which project slightly, with hipped roof above returning to hipped outer end of stable roofs; 3-bay single- storey bothy with ashlar plinth; 12-pane unequally-hung windows flanking central doorway, all in ashlar surrounds, with hipped roof to outer ends. Right side range matching. Interior: buildings are lined with brick and have king-post roof trusses. The stables have original stalls, separated by cast-iron posts with acorn finials and with wrought-iron bars set above boarded partitions, wrought-iron mangers and enamelled basins. A straight flight of ashlar steps to the right of the entrance gateway gives access to the first-floor haylofts. The fourth side of the courtyard is closed by a low rubble wall with central gate, on either side of which are semi- elliptical retaining walls for manure.
Listing NGR: NZ2224206845
