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SLEDMERE MAIN STREET SE 9264-9364 (north-west side)

17/52 Bloodstock Stables and Farmery with walls and 20.9.66 gate piers

GV II

Bloodstock stables and farmery with walls and gate piers. 1830 on central plaque with later additions and alterations. For Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet. Reddish-pink brick in English garden wall bond with pantile roofs. U plan with 2 central ranges within courtyard. North-west side has 2-tall- storey, single-bay centre with 2-storey ranges to either side,that to left with 3 first-floor openings, that to right with 2 first-floor openings. Outer ranges of 2 storeys, 7 and 5 first-floor openings, those to centre of single storey, 12 bays; forming 2 yards. To south-east (street) side are walls, gates and piers to entrances to farmyard. North-west side: to centre a tall, round-arched opening with gauged brick head, now with corrugated iron infill, ashlar imposts. Above an ashlar datestone, then clock. Pyramidal roof with central cupola. Mirrored ranges to either side, have outer arcade of 4 basket-arched cart openings under gauged brick heads with ashlar imposts and keystones, then an elliptically arched stable entrance flanking central bay, that to right range with board door. Otherwise diamond-shaped breathers. To first floor are elliptically arched openings, those to left range have 2 board pitching doors and a 21-pane, unequally hung, 2-light Yorkshire sash to right; those to right range have casement window and board pitching door, all with ashlar sills. Swept and hipped roof. South-west yard: outer wing has 4 round-arched stable openings with ashlar keystones and imposts, 3 blocked, one with board door, then an inserted straight-headed opening. Between these and to end are elliptically arched openings, slatted and glazed, with ashlar sills and keystones. To first floor are elliptically arched pitching doors with ashlar sills and keystones. Swept and hipped roof. Street facade has a slatted opening to ground floor and to first floor a board pitching door, both under elliptical arches with ashlar keystones and sills. Facing this the inner range, has mainly basket-arched cart openings with gauged brick heads with ashlar keystones and imposts. Otherwise to fourth and ninth bays are round-arched stable openings, that to fourth bay with board door with ashlar keystone and imposts. Hipped roof. To street facade a slatted opening under elliptical arch with ashlar keystone and sill. To rear of this range and to facing rear of next are oculi to each side; wall adjoining the two forms pens. North-east yard: inner range similar to that in south yard. Outer range similar to southern outer range but with board doors and fanlights to stable entrances. Hipped roof. Street facade has a slatted opening to ground floor and to first floor a board pitching door,both under elliptical arches with ashlar keystones and sills. Both yards are now partly covered with corrugated-iron roofs. Walls and gate piers to street facade, from south: end pier square on plan with ashlar coping, then wall approximately 2 metres high and 10 metres in length to pair of gate piers, with peaked caps and ball finials. Then wall, curved on plan extends for approximately 8 metres to similar set of gatepiers, that to right abutts southernmost wing of stables and farmery. Between wings, walls with a basket-arched entrance with board door and ashlar keystone to left and set of similar gate piers with board gates to centre. Between inner wings a gate, then similar walls, gates, piers and basket-arched entrance to right. To north-east end a similar set of piers, then wall curved on plan for approximately 8 metres to further similar set of piers, then an inserted entrance and curved wall for approximately 15 metres. Walls have ashlar copings. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 346.

Listing NGR: SE9304364854

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