Former stable, 17 Church Street (EHER 80127)

A Level 2 historic building record in 2018 surveyed the former stable at 17 Church Street. It concluded that the stable had been built in the late 19th century with a hayloft above. A small extension has been added to hang garage doors so a car could fit inside and a small potting shed was added to the southern elevation in the late 20th century.

2018-2019. Historic Building Survey. The two storey building was a stable with hayloft above, the hayloft is now in a poor state of repair. The timber-framed southern wall is clad with late 20th century bandsawn and circular sawn 6-inch weather-boards fixed with French nails. A small extension has been added to hang garage doors so a car could fit inside. The potting shed is built onto the eastern elevation in red Victorian bricks. The ground floor room of the stable has brick walls except for the southern wall. The western wall has been rendered over in modern hard cement, the northern wall has a thin skim of lime rendered that has largely fallen off and the eastern wall just has several layers of lime wash. The southern wall has been altered by removing the frame, adding in extra late 20th century machined planks and extending outwards with simple noggins and plywood sheathing protected with roofing felt. The opening over the doorway has been reinforced twice as the frame sagged under the weight of the hayloft floor. The roof has two king bolt trusses of late 19th century design made from circular sawn softwood. The corrugated iron sheets are held on purlins fixed with cleats to the principal rafters. There is evidence the roof has been dismantled as one the trusses has a late 19th century square nut and the other has a 20th century hex nut with a badly made pressure plate. As the design is so late it is possible the building always had a corrugated iron roof. The Potting Shed is primarily made of fresh or tanalised machine sawn softwood. The roof is made of sheets of clear plastic and the brick walls are quite blackened indicating use as a coal shed. <1>