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stables — Shirley House Lane

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stables — Shirley House Lane
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Detached stable yard, built c.1785, associated with now demolished Shirley House, comprising two multiple-bay two-storey blocks presenting slight round-headed recesses. North-east block now in use as dwelling. South-western block in use as outbuilding and has full-length part-stone and part-brick lean-to block to front. Pitched slate roofs with dressed limestone chimneystacks, one partly brick. Rendered walls with chanelled limestone quoins. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows to dwelling. Barred timber sliding sash window visible to road gable of second block. Yard has roughcast rendered walls with limestone plinths and copings, and square-plan ashlar piers with plinths and caps and supporting double-leaf timber battened vehicular gate. Square-headed pedestrian entrance to north-east of vehicular entrance having chamfered dressed limestone surround with replacement timber battened door. Elliptical-headed archway to south-east side of yard set in rendered wall.

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