The Coach House and Stable area - a crowded and busy male domain - was a necessary and important component of eighteenth-century plantations when coaches were the sole means of transportation by land. Obvious changes in the brickwork of this very long structure indicate several building periods. The west end of the building near the deep ravine did not survive to this century. The edges of the ravine were shored up and additional coach house bays were reconstructed in the 1930s to return the coach house to its former length. Putlog holes for scaffolding were left unfilled in the eighteenth century.

The coach house bays are filled with a variety of nineteenth-century wheeled vehicles. The Bremo Coach, which carried General Lafayette on his trip to Monticello in 1825, and a Landaulette, a fashionable conveyance much enjoyed by the ladies, are included in the collection. The tack room, located in one of the bays, contains equipage - a four-in-hand whip, bridles and harnesses, trees and saddles.

The building between the Coach House and Southwest Out House was previously used as a stable and was missing from the Stratford landscape by the 19th century. Crudely sketched in the 1801 insurance inventory, this building was brick with a clipped gable roof covered with wood shingles and no chimney. The current building is a reconstruction built on original foundations.

Continue on to the Reconstructed Slave Quarters, or you may choose which building to visit from either the Java Site Map or Non-Java Site Map.