From Classrooms to Stables

The Classroom Block was built in 1969 to move the teaching facilities out of the Main Building. It was a timber framed flat roof construction and, although it served as an excellent teaching facility, it had lived out its useful life and change was needed. The structure provided a large concrete base upon which we were able to place two lines of stables, tack rooms and store rooms facing into each other across a good sized yard.
Work began in June 2002 and the first horses moved in at the end of October that year.
As is common with any building project, complications arose as the old timber structure was linked to the brick built classroom and toilet building. Once plaster was removed from the now external wall and the flat roof dismantled from the pitched slate roof many unexpected problems were uncovered. But that is another story.

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The new structure is built on the concrete
base of the old classroom block
The stables completed

This development has increased our DIY Livery capacity considerably making it an important part of the activities at Red House.

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