Stable Block 200 M N of Chesters Humshaugh, England
Listed Building Data
Stable Block 200 M N of Chesters 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1370562
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 15 April 1969
- Name
- STABLE BLOCK 200 METRES NORTH OF CHESTERS
- Location
- STABLE BLOCK 200 METRES NORTH OF CHESTERS
- Parish
- Humshaugh
- District
- Northumberland
- Grid Reference
- NY 90865 70484
- Easting
- 390865.0000
- Northing
- 570484.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
HUMSHAUGH CHESTERS NY 9070 14/226 Stable block 200 15.4.69 metres north of Chesters (previously listed as Stables at Chesters)
GV II*
Stables, 1891 by Norman Shaw. Tooled snecked stone with ashlar dressings; red tile roofs, with lead-domed wooden cupola on gatehouse. Ranges around square yard with central gatehouse on south and open passage at north end of west range to smaller walled yard with coach house to south-west. Modified Baroque style.
2 storeys, 9 bays, symmetrical. Gatehouse front, partly obscured with creeper, has 4 wide rusticated pilasters with attached rusticated columns, at ends and framing rusticated central 3-centred-arched entrance. 10-panel door in similar surround on right. End pilasters terminate in shaped finials. Taller pedimented centre is flanked by large swept brackets, and has end pilasters with carved ornament, and two 2-light leaded windows. Ornate cupola on ridge has open balustrade above clock, and swept dome with tall finial. Flanking 3-bay sections have plinth, string broken forward over paired slit windows and moulded cornice. Taller end bays have end pilasters, strings above and below triplets of 4-pane windows (2 blind on right), cornice and shaped gables with keyed oeil-de-boeuf windows with latticed glazing under small pediments.
Ranges around courtyard each single-storeyed except for projecting gabled 3-bay centrepiece; those at sides have loggias with keyed round arches and three 4-pane windows above; that at rear has ogee-headed doorway flanked by 4-pane casements. Boarded pitching door flanked by slit vents and 4-light window in gable. Single-storey parts have ogee-headed doorways, 4- and 6-pane windows, and round- arched carriage entrances in north part of east range. Walled yard has south gateway with banded rusticated piers; gabled coachhouse to left with boarded doors under elliptical arch with slit above.
Listing NGR: NY9086570484
