Stable Block of Former Cresswell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. Stable block.
Stable Block of Former Cresswell Hall
- WRENN ID
- fallen-ashlar-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1969
- Type
- Stable block
- OS grid reference
- NZ 287 930
- Coordinates
- 55.23051, -1.54876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block of the former Cresswell Hall was built in 1829 by John Shaw for Addison John Cresswell-Baker. It is constructed from tooled-and-margined ashlar and features slate roofs. The stable block forms an imposing structure on three sides of a courtyard, which is closed to the south by a wall with flat coping.
The north range is two storeys high and consists of seven bays, with the central bay projecting under a clock tower. This section includes a doorway with a cornice supported by moulded corbels, a modillion cornice at the eaves level, and a three-light mullioned window on the second floor. The clock stage is moulded and features clock faces adorned with garlands. A Roman Doric bellcote, with square piers distyle in antis on each side, sits atop a low-pitched pyramidal roof with antefixae. The bays flanking the tower have paired carriage entrances with stone lintels beneath moulded cornices, and there are corniced doorways between the end bays. All window openings are empty and have chamfered surrounds, while the eaves cornice is supported by paired brackets. There are four corniced ridge stacks with conjoined shafts.
The west range has five bays with similar detailing, featuring a central bay that is set forward with a large archway, complete with imposts, a moulded keystone, a modillion cornice, and a parapet above. The roof is hipped to the left, and at the far left, a lower wall with a segment-headed arch connects to the wall closing the courtyard on the south. The east range has four bays with irregular fenestration.
Inside, there is a stone open-well stair located in the north range behind the tower. At the time of the survey, the building was derelict and partly roofless. Cresswell Hall, which was built between 1821 and 1824, was demolished in 1937.
Local climate
Stable Block of Former Cresswell Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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