Clarendon - stables & coach house
Aug. 30th, 2006 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI take a lot of photos for future research use. For example, I might realise one night that I need to know how a 19th century stables & coach house complex might be laid out. Looking up this stuff on the web, can take hours and still not be useful (Look, if you ever decided to create a B&B in a building once occupied by horses, don't call it "The Stables" all right? Be original.)
So, when I have the opportunity to photograph a potentially useful building, I do it in some details, down to close up of doors & windows. Obviously, this is what I did at Clarendon, and it explains why I started with these buildings.
I'm doing this backwards, rather than start with the front of the house and its history (large Georgian Regency mansion, on 20,000 acre sheep farm), I'm starting with the stables (foreground) and coach house.
I guess it's a fairly standard coach house for large estate
The arches in the middle of the building
are obviously where the vehicles go. At each end is a door, which leads into a room.
There is also, in the back left corner of the middle part, some steps. Not sure what they go down to.
This is underneath the lefthand end. The steps would be beyond that doorway.
Now behind the coach house, are the convicts' quarters.
The outbuildings were obtained quite recently, about 1995. Some of them have been put to use, but generally not.
This the stable building.
The left hand end is now a function room. I don't know what it was used for before that. Pre-restoration photo, much the same
In the middle is a large door, of a size that a carriage could pass through. Inside there is lovely, restored carriage. So why is there a place to keep a carriage/coach here, when there's a whole building for them?
This is the door & window on far end.
Inside the door, there are 3 loose boxes. This isn't the original layout, apparently, but it was redone when the other buildings were converted to horse accommodation in the 1940s.
Two on the left, with that timber divider.
On the right there is just one, with two feed bins filling the space between.
Corner of the right hand box.
So, when I have the opportunity to photograph a potentially useful building, I do it in some details, down to close up of doors & windows. Obviously, this is what I did at Clarendon, and it explains why I started with these buildings.
I'm doing this backwards, rather than start with the front of the house and its history (large Georgian Regency mansion, on 20,000 acre sheep farm), I'm starting with the stables (foreground) and coach house.
I guess it's a fairly standard coach house for large estate
The arches in the middle of the building
are obviously where the vehicles go. At each end is a door, which leads into a room.
There is also, in the back left corner of the middle part, some steps. Not sure what they go down to.
This is underneath the lefthand end. The steps would be beyond that doorway.
Now behind the coach house, are the convicts' quarters.
The outbuildings were obtained quite recently, about 1995. Some of them have been put to use, but generally not.
This the stable building.
The left hand end is now a function room. I don't know what it was used for before that. Pre-restoration photo, much the same
In the middle is a large door, of a size that a carriage could pass through. Inside there is lovely, restored carriage. So why is there a place to keep a carriage/coach here, when there's a whole building for them?
This is the door & window on far end.
Inside the door, there are 3 loose boxes. This isn't the original layout, apparently, but it was redone when the other buildings were converted to horse accommodation in the 1940s.
Two on the left, with that timber divider.
On the right there is just one, with two feed bins filling the space between.
Corner of the right hand box.
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Date: 2006-08-30 10:33 am (UTC)So it does, and it doesn't lose any meaning.