A stable block dating from 1736 which underwent alterations in 1917. It was constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has a hipped pantile roof with lead dressings and a weatherboarded timber clock tower with a shaped lead roof. The clock was designed in 1778, by the Adam brothers for Hook Place, Hampshire, and was brought here in 1917 to commemorate the return of Stephen Massinqberd from the Great War. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {1} The Clock House sits on the western side of the Stable Courtyard, and is the first building that is seen on the approach to Gunby House. It is a 2 storey building with a central entrance passageway for horses and vehicles. It is built out of handmade bricks from local fabric laid in Flemish bond. The Clock House has a hipped roof covered with pantiles. The east side has two projecting brick chimney stacks, but these were altered when the clock tower was built in 1917. The western elevation is the principal façade, which is dominated by the centrally placed entrance passageway and clock tower. The entrance passage has round headed brick arches, with a sandstone keystone incised with WM 1736. There were external gates on the west side, and a wooden pulley attached to a central beam. This pulley was installed when the tower was added, and is associated with ringing the tower bell. The bays on either side of the arch have 2 windows on each floor with arched brick headers. The northern elevation has one window on the ground floor, and is otherwise plain. The eastern elevation is relatively plain. To the south of the entrance arch, there is a single window on the ground floor. North of the arch, there is a pair of double wooden doors, which may have been inserted to accommodate vehicles and might have replaced a window or single pedestrian doorway. There is also a later window that has been inserted on the first floor above the double doors. The southern elevation has a single doorway, with a 20th century external porch with a pitched slate roof, and a small window on the first floor. To the south of the clock tower, there are 2 rooms on the ground floor, and 2 rooms and a corridor on the 1st floor. The first room on the ground floor is an entrance lobby, and contains the stairs to the upper floor. The second room has a substantial chimney breast on the northern wall. The opening for the hearth has been plastered over, but the room was obviously used for something that needed substantial heating, possibly brewing or baking. There is also a timber enclosure in the northeast corner of the room that houses the clock weights. North of the entrance passageway, there are 2 rooms on both the ground and 1st floors. The first room on the ground floor has quarry tile flooring, with a rough concrete slab inserted into the centre of the room. The southern wall has a large chimney breast that has undergone at least 2 phases of alteration, and is in need of further investigation. On either side of the chimney, brick platforms have been added, and sitting within these are two circular cast iron basins with timber lids. These are thought to be laundry boilers. Built into the front of each platform are open grates, which would have been used as fireboxes to heat the basins. There is also a large brass tap in the southeast corner of the room. The second room is a drying room, and has associated metal loops and pulley wheels in the ceiling, which probably held a clothes maiden. On the 1st floor, there is a single, large room over the northern portion of the Clock House, which is open to the rafters. The beams are numbered with Roman numerals, which indicates that they were formed in a framing yard and then lifted into place during construction. The walls are partially covered in plaster, and there are fragments of pencil graffiti in the reveals of the eastern window. The southern wall has an angled chimney flue that was altered after the addition of the clock tower. The second room is located over the entrace passageway. It is also open to the rafters with numbered beams. The clock tower itself was added in 1917. It is a tall sqaure tower, built out of timber, with a clock face on each side. Above this, there is an open cuppola with a bell, surmounted with an ogee profiled lead roof with a large weather vane. The clock was designed by Adam Brothers for Hook Place, Southampton Water, Hampshire in 1778. It was given to Stephen Massingberd by his sister in 1917, upon his return from the First World War. {2}