A brief history of The Stables
The Stables forms part of The Old Stone Barn and were originally part of the working farm before being developed in to a residential property.
The main barn was built circa. 1750 with additions; the granary, cart house, stables and wheel house circ 1800. The rear of the main barn and between the stables was covered with a double roof circa. 1950, extending to the bottom of the stables to form a fold yard.
During World War II the granary housed a number of Polish refugees; there are a number of Polish inscriptions preserved within the walls of the building.
The Stables,The Roost and a bit about us!
Having renovated a small three bedroom terraced house, then a larger four bedroom house with an unused hair salon attached, we took a colossal leap and purchased the barn in November 2005. It was derelict and unnamed! We employed seven Polish builders living on site in two large static caravans. They removed approximately 50 tonnes of soil and concrete from inside the barn, plus a hundred years of cow poo, re-built the gable end and re-roofed the whole barn. A concrete slab was laid in the main area and our house was built within the existing stone walls to support the new roof and new first floor. The structural work to the main barn was completed in March 2006 at which point we employed three skilled Polish joiners. They hand made all the doors, floors, windows and staircase from 27 tonne of imported European Oak. We joined them and lived in one of the caravans when our eldest son was aged one, we were both in full time employment driving an 80 mile round trip every morning and night to work via the nursery. Jason would hold a site meeting every morning before we left, Polish was not his forte but luckily we had two huge white boards and lots of hand signals! On returning every evening we would work in the barn until the early hours. We moved into a small part of the main barn in December 2006. The Polish team stayed with us until 2009 working on the rest of the barn and other local properties.
The Stables would originally have been home to about 6 or 7 shire horses that would have worked on the farm complex.
The original stables were dilapidated, they were demolished and re-built in 2008, first being used as workshops and then renovated into this holiday cottage which opened in 2012. The last section of the barn is now renovated too and is a one bedroom luxury retreat, The Roost. It was finally converted in 2021 and opened for guests in February 2022. So what will Jason do next?….A gym – still to be finished and will be located in the old workshop.
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Lisa, Jason, the boys and our ‘extended animal family’.
