Did this visit last June with @Bumblebee87 and planned on a revisit, however the site is now sealed up and looks like building work is happening so hopefully this gem is being saved finally!
The stables were built by M.J.Dain of 'Dain and Parsons, London' in 1856 in a mock Jacobean style to house the Earl’s 47 horses. It was built at a cost thought to be around £30,000, aroung £4,000,000 in todays money, when the Earl was made Master of Quorn Hunt in that year.
The stable building was fronted by spacious kitchen, gardens, and a number of glasshouses. Inside it was built with four accommodation blocks which house 19 staff including groomsmen and coachmen along with smithing staff, a carriage house, five haylofts, a forge and shoeing box, three tack rooms, and a boiler house with the jewel in its crown being the entrance clock tower with its large marble panel containing the arms of the Earl of Stamford including a wyvern and a unicorn.
The clock mechanism seems to have been removed sometime in the mid 1990's, and scaffold erected around the building and by 2002 the collapsed roof structures were removed
this was one of my favourite explores so far, and its so sad to see the place in this state, hopefully the current building work will at least stabilise the structure if not restore it. We did get a fright when some sheep from the adjoining field broke through a metal barrier and nearly gave us a heart attack!
The stables were built by M.J.Dain of 'Dain and Parsons, London' in 1856 in a mock Jacobean style to house the Earl’s 47 horses. It was built at a cost thought to be around £30,000, aroung £4,000,000 in todays money, when the Earl was made Master of Quorn Hunt in that year.
The stable building was fronted by spacious kitchen, gardens, and a number of glasshouses. Inside it was built with four accommodation blocks which house 19 staff including groomsmen and coachmen along with smithing staff, a carriage house, five haylofts, a forge and shoeing box, three tack rooms, and a boiler house with the jewel in its crown being the entrance clock tower with its large marble panel containing the arms of the Earl of Stamford including a wyvern and a unicorn.
The clock mechanism seems to have been removed sometime in the mid 1990's, and scaffold erected around the building and by 2002 the collapsed roof structures were removed
this was one of my favourite explores so far, and its so sad to see the place in this state, hopefully the current building work will at least stabilise the structure if not restore it. We did get a fright when some sheep from the adjoining field broke through a metal barrier and nearly gave us a heart attack!
