Anketell Grove

Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c.1860, having central three-storey entrance bay. Corrugated-iron canopy supported on cast-iron columns to rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, timber barge-boards, exposed trusses and mixed cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Coursed rubble limestone walls having tooled block-and-start quoins, some traces of render, and cut-stone eaves course, continuing across first floor window of entrance bay. Segmental-headed window openings to front with red brick surrounds and timber-framed windows. Gauged-brick round-headed recess to first floor of centre bay to rear, having red brick surround, with red brick tympanum with tooled stone oculus over paired round-headed openings having tooled stone surrounds, mullions and sills and timber fittings. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to front with tooled stone sills and timber fittings. Gauged brick paired round-headed window openings to upper gable to north having shared stone sill and timber fittings. Gauged-brick three-centred-arch openings at ground floor level to west elevation with double-leaf timber battened door. Opening to south of rear blocked and replaced with square-headed timber battened door. Coursed limestone rubble wall extending from front of outbuilding. Twelve evenly-spaced niches to wall, alternating gauged-brick round and square-headed niches with cut-stone copings stepped over round-headed niches.

This substantial Victorian stable block was built in a Lombardesque style and complements the adjoining Ankatell Grove country house. It would once have been an important part of the infrastructure of the estate. The simple but well-executed rubble stone walls are enlivened by the use of tooled limestone surrounds and mullions, and red brick detailing to the window and door openings. Round-headed window openings also enhance the façade and the pattern of alternating square and round-headed openings is reflected in the attached wall with its decorative niches. The outbuilding, the house and demesne walls combine to form an important grouping in the landscape.