Listed Building record MDO17702 - Stables and foaling boxes east of Dairy Farm Buildings at rear of former dairy, Affpuddle

Stables and mares' foaling boxes built in 1917 by MacDonald Gill in association with Halsey Ricardo for Sir Ernest Debenham's model dairy farm. Brick and concrete block walls, with hipped and gabled roofs with diamond set slates.

Briantspuddle Farm in Affpuddle is a Grade II listed model farmstead. <1>

Stables and mares' foaling boxes to east of dairy farm buildings at rear of former dairy. Stables and mares' foaling boxes. 1917. MacDonald Gill in association with Halsey Ricardo for Sir Ernest Debenham's model dairy farm. Brick and concrete block walls, hipped and gabled roofs with diamond set slates. Enclosed rectangular stable yard with canted angles at each corner. Externally, against the south wall, a range of mares' foaling boxes with canted angles on the north side at either end. Stable yard: main entry through the south west canted angle. A range of horse boxes on the north side and part of east and west sides with a continuous feeding passage between boxes and the yard wall entered at either end and through timber double doors in the north east and north west canted angles. A shallow vented gable above both angles with tumbled brick copings and kneelers. Partition walls between boxes have vertical board dados. Range of mares' foaling boxes: colonnade of ten bays facing south: circular pre-cast concrete columns on simple chamfered concrete bases with square imposts of 5 corbelled tile courses supporting timber bressumers and principal beams of collar tie roof trusses. 3 bays of the colonnade infilled later with concrete block walls each with a large timber framed opening with vertical timber slats. Tiled floors. Continuous feeding trough at rear of range between the inner brick piers and the north wall. The west end of the range is now roofless. Listing NGR: SY8200693100. <2>

The former dairy farm has been converted into houses and the stable yard has been planted and is now (2011) a garden. <3>

<1> Bryan Hoile and Associates, 1998, Thematic survey of plannned and model farmsteads (Unpublished document). SDO16700.

<2> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 1:1250, 2010 (Map). SWX1844.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1546148 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 12:36PM