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Summary

The former 19th century stable block is all that is left of Silverton Park, a large mansion built by the 4th Earl of Egremont c.1839-45 and which was demolished in 1900. Now owned by The Landmark Trust, the stables is an impressive quadrangular, single storey structure built in neo-classical style with tall windows and pediments over the centres of the former entrance and storage blocks.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1325795: THE PARK FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS90SE/3/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STABLE (Built, XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

Chalk I. J., 1938-1939, 'Cross' place names near Silverton, 330 (Article in Serial). SDV56355.

Hoskins, W. G., 1954, A New Survey of England: Devon, 478 (Monograph). SDV17562.

All that is left of Silverton Park, a large mansion built by the 4th Earl of Egremont (d.1845) is the 'classical' stables.

Western Morning News, 1959, The Ruin, Silverton (Article in Serial). SDV361457.

One-storeyed square, with pedimented centre motifs. It was plastered but the plaster has fallen off. The coach house and stables were mistaken for Silverton House itself in this description.

The Independent, 1988, Gazette (Article in Serial). SDV216880.

Silverton Park coach House in Devon, which has been bought by the Landmark Trust. It was designed in 1839 by architect James Knowles, who later designed the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The commission came from the fourth Earl of Egremont who, having not inherited Petworth House, in Sussex, from his uncle, hoped to make up for his loss with a grand neoclassical building. He died before the ambitious plan was completed. The house was demolished in 1900 and the coach house, which housed about 30 horses and 16 grooms, changed into a dwelling. The coach house is in such a state of dilapidation that it will take between 18 months and two years to restore; the original metallic sand cement rendering which has all but disappeared, will not be replaces. It stands in the 4.78 acres of the old park, and when completed, will accommodate eight people.

Child, P., 1996, Silverton Park Stables (Correspondence). SDV347014.

A most impressive structure in an eccentric combination of local stone and brick. It is a significant piece of polite architecture in a neo-classical style, a comparitive rarity in a county with few large estates. Presumably by the architect James Knowles.

Wills, A., 2008, Devon's dovecotes, an undergraduate investigation, 20, Fig. 15 (Undergraduate Dissertation). SDV366424.

There is a row of occupied dove nest holes some 5m above ground on the internal east wall. The building is a late 18th, early 19th century purpose built stable block.

The Landmark Trust, 2008, J T Knowles and Silverton Park Stables (Un-published). SDV344630.

The unfinished stable block at Silverton is one of only two buildings that remain of the early work of J. T. Knowles (senior). Built of brick, on a monumental scale, it is a rare survival of his work.

The Landmark Trust, 2010, The Landmark Trust (Website). SDV344632.

Other details: Photographs.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

The Park Farmhouse. Farmhouse, formerly the stable block to Silverton Park (demolished 1900). 1839-45; designed by James Knowles for the fourth Earl of Egremont. Brick, on random rubble volcanic trap plinth with Portland stone dressing. Hipped slate roofs. Neo-classical style. Quadrangular, square ground plan with an extension to the south which rises abruptly above steeply falling slope, with opposed pedimented vehicular entrance blocks to east and west both of two-storeys, a matching storage block to the north, all set centrally in their respective ranges; the remainder all of one storey.
The lower ranges with hipped roofs screened by moulded parapet wall with widely-spaced merlins; the parapet has been removed from the north section. Entrance blocks, Portland stone pediment, moulded brick cornice; and with paired plain brick pilasters flanking square-headed entrance; the third pedimented block with access to ground and first floor, ventilators and nesting boxes, the roof flat and lowered.
Single storeyed ranges with tall windows under floating cornices, many of them blocked but where intact, with twelve-pane unhorned sashes. Internal doorways (some blocked) with brick ashes; sash window to internal face of dwelling which occupies south-east corner.
Date first listed: 11th June 1986

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