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Staddle stones were made out of different types of stone depending on the area they were made in, Originally used as supports for the bases of wooden granaries, the idea was to lift the granaries above ground level, thereby protecting the stored grain from water seepage and vermin.

Above, the Cleveland Tontine, at Staddle Bridge, Northallerton

Staddle Stones are mushroom-shaped granite stones used in the 18th and 19th Centuries to support corn or hay ricks, granaries, game larders and any other farm buildings.

The "Staddle" can handle pallets and skids with either open or closed bottoms.

Sutherland escaped with staddle stones worth more than pounds 6,000, committing 24 offences between November last year and April.

David took the blonde- haired twins to a local pub called The Staddle Stones in Cheltenham, Glos, where they met his friends Danny Winter and Wisdom Smith.

ON one of the valuation days at our Southport office, a lady came in with photographs of some staddle stones and stone troughs she wanted to sell.

Garden designers are spoilt for choice with an unusually large variety of staddle stones, currently a market favourite, troughs, seats, reeded lamp posts and, at the top of the market, a marble statue of Young Winter attributed to Emil Wolf at pounds 5,000-pounds 7,000.

There is permission to build a village house which will link with this picturesque, Grade ll listed building, still on its raised platform of staddle stones and set in about a third of an acre The granary has permission to be converted as an annexe to swell the living space beyond the three or four bedroom house, whose foundations are already in place.

Staddle Stones at Lower Quinton was built only 20 years ago - but one might not guess.

Close by is the garaging and the separate granary, a picturesque outbuilding, set on staddle stones and providing upper floor storage with beams, vaulted ceiling, power and light.

There are mature trees to the boundary, staddle stones lining the driveway to the garaging and one of the two garage buildings is currently used as office space, served by a separate cloakroom.

The driveway, featuring a number of staddle stones, leads past the easterly side of the house and sweeps around to the front.

Focal points are arranged carefully around the garden: a statuette in the rock garden, a stone gremlin by a pebble pool and fountain, much loved by frogs and birds, and a staddle stone - a mushroom shaped stone once used to support a haystacks - in a shady corner among ferns and hostas.

The grains of corn would then be stored in barns supported on staddle stones (to keep the rats and mice at bay) and subsequently delivered to the mill finally to produce the flour.