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Description: Former stables and arched wall attaching it to the old coach house

Address: The Stables Adjacent To Cliffe Hill Wakefield Road Lightcliffe Brighouse Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Wakefield Road, Lightcliffe

Full description:
Stable range with linking walls. c1775. Probably built soon after the rebuilding of Cliffe House which it serves. Brick with some ashlar dressings. Concrete tile roofs. PLAN: STABLE range facing on to courtyard, and connected by a SCREEN WALL WITH ARCH, with north end of yard being closed by FLANKING WALLS with broad gateway. EXTERIOR: FRONT (east) ELEVATION: Two storey, hipped concrete tile roof, with central doorway with small flanking windows contained within arched, bar-entrance like surround. To either side pairs of round-headed windows flank plain doors. To first floor three small semi-circular lights to centre, flanked to either side by round-headed loading doors, and with further small semi-circular light to each end. Wooden window frames and doors probably C19 replacements. END (north) ELEVATION: small square window to first floor. INTERIOR: Ground floor with intact loose boxes with wrought iron columns and with central staircase to first floor. First floor divided into three rooms with exposed roof trusses. SCREEN WALL: Lower part of brick, rising in centre to form double-height arched opening. This linked to corner eaves of coachhouse and stable range to either side of the arch by two tapering, square sectioned stone columns. FLANKING WALLS: of brick, c2.5m high, dropping in quarter-round shape to meet stone gateposts defining a broad entrance. SECONDARY YARD: beyond the entrance defined by the flanking walls is a second, slip-like yard, closed at it's west end by a single-storey brick building extending northward from the stables. Freestanding outbuildings are mapped at, and just beyond, the east end of the yard (no details available). HISTORY: Cliffe Hill, the adjoining mansion, is believed to have been built in 1775. The stables and coach house complex are of similar date, and are more than purely functional: they were designed to impress, as were the modest, park-like grounds in which the house was set, and were designed in a fashionable Neo-classical manner with a particularly unusual screen wall. The stable range and attached enclosure walls form a group with the former coach house, now dwelling (q.v.) which faces the stable across the courtyard.