The guidebook provides the following information:
the old stable block, which is listed in Edward Ferrers’s ‘Account of what I have built and altered in and about Baddesley house’ as costing £76 17s 7d in 1714. Some of the arched entrances were bricked up to allow the interior to be fitted out with Victorian loose-boxes.
The timber-framed clock turret above the stable had to be renewed by the National Trust in 1981, after it had become dilapidated. the single-handed turret clock has a fine unaltered mechanism now restored to working order. Edward Ferrers spent £19 4s on ‘The Clock, Bell, Fan Dyall Board etc.’
So much attention to details in those days and such pride in their work.
And the buildings have stood the test of time which is more than can be said for the modern buildings of today. I am sure they won’t still be standing after a similar amount of time.
Somewhere else that’s lovely to visit with my NT card one day.
I would love to meet you there and show you round
the single-handed turret clock
Is a single-handed clock a lot of use, Cherie?
You tell me
Different anyway.
I think you could work out the minutes roughly to about 15 minutes. So I guess it is accurate enough unless someone wants to time something to the minute…
Is that really a stable?!
Looks like a chapel to me!
Lovely.
I want to find out more about the windows. They are rather curious and the guidebook doesn’t mention them.