Stable Block North of Startforth Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Stable block.
Stable Block North of Startforth Hall
- WRENN ID
- deep-zinc-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Stable Block North of Startforth Hall, High Startforth, DL12 9AG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 044 158
- Coordinates
- 54.53751, -1.93234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block north of Startforth Hall is a Grade II listed building, dated 1754, featuring the initials G A on the architrave of the north door, though it may include older materials. The front is constructed of squared stone, while the other walls are made of squared rubble, all of which are rendered and pebbledashed, with cut dressings. The roof is made of graduated stone slate and has a grey brick stack on the rear slope.
The building is two storeys high and consists of two bays. It has a plinth and features 9-pane short sash windows set within architraves. The gables are coped and supported by moulded kneelers. The left side of the building displays a triangular pigeon opening in the gable with a stone alighting shelf, while the rear has an outshut window with blacksmith's glazing in an architrave. The right side includes a boarded door in a dated architrave and some inserted openings. The rear features a boarded door in a chamfered surround with a flattened triangular head within a square frame, along with a 9-pane fixed casement.
Local climate
Stable Block North of Startforth Hall receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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