Listed Building record MDR4447 - Stable Court Riding School, Calke Abbey, Calke Park, Calke

Stable Court Riding School, Calke Abbey, Calke Park, Calke, built c1712. 'The stately brick stables at Calke Abbey were built in 1712-16 by William Gilkes of Burton. They are two storeys high, and thirteen bays wide, the centre three bays projecting under a pediment with a big segmental carriage arch. The symmetrical five-bay wings have bolection moulding round the central doorways. There are quoins at all angles. Above the pediment there is a quite large octagonal cupola with an onion dome.' (1) From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF CALKE CALKE PARK SK 32 SE 4/14 19-1-67 Stables and Riding School (formerly listed as The Stable Court Riding School) GV II* Stables and riding school. 1712-16 by William Gilkes of Burton- on-Trent, riding school probably mid-late C18. Red brick and sandstone ashlar. Hipped Welsh slate roof and plain tile roof. Stable block consists of four ranges around a courtyard. Two storeys. Moulded stone plinth, chamfered quoins, moulded first floor band linked to keyblocks of lower windows. Moulded cornice and coped parapet. South elevation of 5-3-5 bays, the centre three advanced and pedimented, with a clock face in the pediment. Central rusticated segmental arch flanked by wooden cross windows, with wedge brick lintels and keystones. Three similar 2-light casements above. Matching symmetrical five bay ranges on each side have a large central bolection moulded doorway with moulded cornice and blind openings painted to resemble paired doors with overlights. Flanked on each side by two cross windows as to the centre part. Five 2-light windows above as to the centre part. The centre part has an octagonal cupola with 2-light blind windows and louvred openings above. The weather vane is a replacement of 1750 by Robert Bakewell. Four lead downpipes with a boar on the hopper treads. West elevation of twelve bays with to the ground floor, cross windows as on the main front, and doorways with plain surrounds and wedge brick lintels with keyblocks, and mostly double doors with triangular headed panels and rectangular overlights. 2-light windows above as on the main front. West elevation of thirteen bays with similar cross windows, and doorways with keyed moulded surrounds, arranged symmetrically. Thirteen 2-light windows above, the keyblocks linked to a second floor band as on the east front. Similar lead downpipes. The rear elevation is much plainer, with stone bands and segment headed openings. The interior of the courtyard has plain first floor band and moulded cornice, and segment headed doors and windows, otherwise similar to the external elevations. Extruded bays in the angles on the south side. The interior has late C18 stalls, and fireproof construction of iron with brick vaults. In the east range the brewhouse retains some of its machinery. Gabled riding school attached to north west, it's south elevation partly engaged with the stable block. Broad segmental arched entrance with impost blocks and rusticated arch. Panelled doors. Pedimented gable. The west elevation is of five broad bays divided by pilaster strips. Each bay has a 3-light casement window under splayed wedge brick lintel. The east elevation is blind and has attached at the south end a later two storey gabled building, with doorway and glazing bar sash under wedge brick lintel, and a 2-light segment headed window above. Gabled bay to right with doorway and circular pitching eye above. The north elevation has a blind segmental arch and a Diocletian window above, all set within a blind round arch. Listing NGR: SK3668322666.' (2)