Stables Loft and Carriage Shed to Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1976. Stables.

Stables Loft and Carriage Shed to Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
grey-flagstone-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 August 1976
Type
Stables
Address
Stables Loft and Carriage Shed to Church of St Michael, Esh
OS grid reference
NZ 189 437
Coordinates
54.78791, -1.7063
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stables, loft, and carriage shed for the Church of St. Michael were built around 1800. They are constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of six bays. There are boarded doors in the second and fourth bays, with the fourth bay featuring a two-pane overlight under a flat stone lintel. Similar flat stone lintels are found above small rectangular two-light windows in the sixth bay and on the first floor. The third ground-floor bay has a horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars beneath a wooden lintel. There are vent slits on the left side and a blocked area to the right of the second door. A flat stone lintel marks the doorway at the left end, which is under a wall that continues with the loft. The right return gable features a hit-and-miss window under a flat stone lintel, and a sash window with glazing bars is positioned above it at the gable peak. There are double boarded vehicle doors in the outshut. The rear elevation includes a full-width one-storey outshut with both double and single boarded doors, along with a wide vehicle entrance that has an altered lintel.

Local climate

Stables Loft and Carriage Shed to Church of St Michael receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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