Our plans to walk around the lakes at Gosford were thwarted due to the paths being closed as the grounds were waterlogged but we still enjoyed seeing the carpets of snowdrops in the woods.   Being ‘Derelict Sunday’ (hosted by TMLHereAndThere ) I decided to blip the old stables.

Like many stables attached to large countryhouses the one at Gosford House in East Lothian appears to be fairly derelict. When the famous architect Robert Adam designed both the house and the stables in 1790 it must have looked impressive with the clock and sculpted panels above the doors featuring two griffins flanking an urn.  The swan standing between the urns on the roof has lost its head and on the parapet just visible behind the tree is a sphinx between urns. It is difficult now to distinguish the figures representing agriculture, painting, sculpture and geometry on the four panels on the side wings but must have looked magnificent two hundred years ago at the time when there would have been a lot of activity around.