Stable Block of Fawnlees House and Mounting Block is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Stable block.
Stable Block of Fawnlees House and Mounting Block
- WRENN ID
- odd-dormer-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Stable Block of Fawnlees House and Mounting Block, Leazes Lane, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 062 384
- Coordinates
- 54.74126, -1.90447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block of Fawnlees House, along with a mounting block, was built in 1843 and is now used as a garage and house. It features painted rough render with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof, complemented by ashlar and brick chimneys. The structure has a T-plan with a left extension.
The main building is two storeys high and has seven bays, with the central bay being wider and projecting beneath a low gable. There is a central double vehicle entrance that is boarded and topped with a fanlight featuring vertical glazing bars, set within an elliptical-headed arch that includes a keystone and stepped voussoirs, which is dated 1843. Above this entrance, there is a pivoted light in a similar style. A boarded door is located in the plain stone surround at the centre of the right three bays. The building has two-light windows on the right and in all first-floor bays, which are adorned with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The left part of the building features three ground-floor sashes with paired lights, while the outer bays have segmental heads. The hipped roof is topped with a brick chimney on the left ridge and an octagonal ashlar chimney with a plinth and cornice on the right ridge. A central weather-vane with a large bronze fox finial, which is partly eroded, is present.
The left extension is set back and is one storey high with three bays. It includes a boarded vehicle door on the left, a central boarded door, and a right sash window that has late 19th-century glazing bars, all featuring flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills.
In front of the right end window of the stable building, there is a stone mounting block.
Local climate
Stable Block of Fawnlees House and Mounting Block receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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