Description

LOFTUS HIGH STREET NZ 7218 (off south side), Loftus 4/38 Stable House. G.V. II Stable block,c.1840, now a house, store and workshop. Dressed sandstone with tooled margins. Late C20 concrete tiles on west wing, Lakeland slate on north wing. "L"-plan, on 2 sides of courtyard. 2 storeys; entered from courtyard. Inner face of west wing has 2 blocked segmental-headed openings now holding window and mid C20 door to house at left on ground floor; 2 windows at right and 5 first-floor windows, 2 blocked, with sill bands; renewed sashes. Segmental-headed carriage entrance, now holding doorways, below paired hopper-light windows on first floor, in angle. Inner face of north wing has stable door, ground-floor windows with hit-and-miss and glazing bars above, and first-floor windows with glazing bars and pivoted upper lights. Hipped low-pitched roofs have deep overhanging eaves. Banded ridge stacks. Outer faces: 3-bays, those to north wing defined by pilasters; 3 metal vent grilles in small rectangular recesses in each bay on ground floor. First floor: paired rectangular lights, those in middle bay flanked by single-light windows. West wing: similar with paired pilasters, openings enlarged and new ground-floor openings made, now holding sash windows. Both wings have plinth, first-floor sill bands and bands at eaves. North-wing interior has stalls with ramped timber partitions, hay racks and metal troughs. Lean-to shed adjoining south end of west wing, and outbuildings to north and in courtyard, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ7214618096

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  For the Record
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)