Stable block (2)

I noticed the East Street stable block at reference 1.

I now notice that the target of the refurbishment is now a day nursery, which last seem to be sprouting up all over Epsom.

For the greater convenience of both team members and customers, the back garden has been flattened for a car park and what I thought was a stable block has been knocked through into a gate, which rather spoils its formerly quaint appearance. (And does away with what looked like the shiny new, tropical rain forest sourced door of the previous illustration). I wonder if the heritage people said that the thing had to be preserved in some form or another, and this was the form they finally compromised on? Would it have been better simply to have removed it?

I also now wonder whether it was a stable block at all, rather a bit of kitsch from the very beginning. Scarcely big enough for a pony and trap, never mind a horse and cart. Did the pony live inside with the trap parked out front to impress the neighbours?

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/stable-block.html.