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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hayman" data-source="post: 370268" data-attributes="member: 52867"><p>I fully agree.  My parents used the loose boxes on the ground floor of the stable block to the 1880 country house they ran as a guest house to keep deep litter hens.  The eggs were served for the guests' breakfasts, etc.  Later - when guests expected somewhere to garage their cars, they had the loose boxes converted for that purpose.  The thick timbers (possibily teak or mahogany) that made up the partitions between the loose boxes was sold for re-use.  After we moved away, and the main house was made into flats, the lower floor of the stable block that also included the tack room and coach house was turned into flats; with the upper floor that had been the accommodation for the coachman and groom and families similarly treated.  But all put to good use.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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