Stone Centrepiece of Former Stable Court to North of Lambton Castle is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Stable centrepiece.
Stone Centrepiece of Former Stable Court to North of Lambton Castle
- WRENN ID
- bitter-corridor-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Stable centrepiece
- Address
- Stone Centrepiece of Former Stable Court to North of Lambton Castle, North Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NZ 298 528
- Coordinates
- 54.86983, -1.53631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stone centrepiece of the former stable court to the north of Lambton Castle is a mid-19th century structure that features a castellated design on the west side of a quadrangular stable block. The front is made of tooled dressed sandstone, while the rear is constructed from painted brick. The roof is covered with Welsh slates at the front and graduated green slates at the rear, with brick chimney stacks.
This building stands two storeys tall and consists of three bays. It has a Tudor-arched carriage entrance, a first-floor string course, a carved Achievement of the Lambton Arms, and an embattled parapet supported by corbels. The structure is flanked by taller semi-octagonal towers that have staggered loops and carved animal heads beneath their projecting embattled parapets. The windows are 2-light mullioned types with hoodmoulds, featuring 8-pane sashes. There are corbelled-out gabled half dormers with identical 2-light windows in the end bays. The roof is adorned with chamfered coping on the gables and square footstones, with chimney stacks at each end.
The painted brick remainder of the quadrangle and the detached coach house in the yard are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Stone Centrepiece of Former Stable Court to North of Lambton Castle receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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