THE GRANGE STABLES

These stables came from allotment 79 in the parish of Kalpienung owned by the Bartram family.

With the splitting up of a partnership of their family farm it was decided to remove half of the stables to relocate to one of the brother’s farm as he required a shed. This was in the 1950s. The stables now are just a bit more than half of the original size of the stables from “The Grange”

The posts were cut from trees on the Grange block being mainly pine. The trees that the posts were made from were most likely growing on the sand rise 500 metres to the north east of where the stables now stand. On one end of the stables was an area divided off for the stallion to eat at, if this was not done they would boss the other horses away from their food. This pen was called a loose box.

In 2023 a storm damaged the stables, which also needed repair from white ant damage and rotted away posts. It was decided not to repair it, but pill it down and rebuild it where it stands today. What you see today is what was able to be saved from “the grange stables” and some posts from a stable on the Clarkes property owned by the Watts family. Some of the timber came from The Grange house that had been pulled down in 1986.

On one occasion while yoking up on the horses, Peter, my father was bitten on the bottom by one of the horses. This coursed a bruise that went from his knee to the middle of his back and a week in bed. Draft horses have big mouths!
- Tony Bartram