Stable Block to North West of Craster Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Stable block.

Stable Block to North West of Craster Tower

WRENN ID
third-panel-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Stable block
OS grid reference
NU 250 196
Coordinates
55.46969, -1.60491
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stable block located to the north-west of Craster Tower dates from the late 18th century and incorporates earlier materials. The front wall is made of squared stone, except for a central section of rubble, while the other sides are heavily cemented rubble with cut sandstone dressings. The roofs are covered with pantiles, except for the north side of the south range, which has Welsh slates. The building is arranged in an L-plan.

The front (east) elevation features three gabled bays. The left bay has a pair of elliptical arches, while the other bays have single segmental arches, all of which hold boarded double doors. Quatrefoil panels are present in the gables. To the far left, a short attached wall with a rebated segmental arch connects to the garden wall. The left return displays two boarded doors and a stable door, all in chamfered four-centred surrounds, along with four 4-pane sash windows, two 12-pane sash windows, and a 9-pane fixed window. There are also two low slatted windows positioned directly beneath the eaves, and the roof is hipped to the left.

On the rear elevation, the north and central bays have hipped roofs, while the south range features a large raking buttress with a blocked stone-surround doorway to the left and a boarded door with a 6-pane overlight under a timber lintel to the right.

Local climate

Stable Block to North West of Craster Tower 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 greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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