Stable Block 180 Metres South West of Rokeby Park 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 180 Metres South West of Rokeby Park
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cloister-sorrel
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NZ 081 140
- Coordinates
- 54.52189, -1.87624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block, located 180 meters south-west of Rokeby Park, dates from the late 18th century. It is constructed of tooled squared stone with tooled-and-margined dressings, and features a brick rear wall. The building has a graduated Lakeland slate roof topped with a timber clock turret. It is designed with one and two storeys, comprising one, three, five, three, and one bays.
The stable block includes a plinth, an impost band, a first-floor band, and/or an eaves band. The two-storey center section has an arcade that holds flush-panelled or boarded double doors, except for the arch to the right, which contains a round-arched doorway with a flush-panelled door and an eight-pane fanlight. The first-floor windows consist of three slatted windows, a six-pane fixed light, and a four-pane Yorkshire sash, all featuring flat arches and slightly projecting sills.
The hip-ended roof is adorned with a central clock turret that has a moulded clock face surround, twin turned balusters at the angles, slatted sides, and a pyramid roof topped with a weathervane. The flanking single-storey sections have round-arched openings; the left side features a boarded door beneath a four-pane fanlight, flanked by two 20-pane sash windows. The right side has two similar windows with a flush-panelled door and a four-pane fanlight to the right, both sections topped with hip-ended roofs. The far left end bay has a pent roof with a boarded door, while the far right end bay has a round-arched fixed window with radial glazing and a porch set back on the right, which holds a boarded door and a four-pane fanlight.
Local climate
Stable Block 180 Metres South West of Rokeby Park 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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