The Stables to Bishopthorpe Palace is a Grade II* listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Stables, coach house, dovecote.
The Stables to Bishopthorpe Palace
- WRENN ID
- western-minaret-winter
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Stables, coach house, dovecote
- Address
- The Stables to Bishopthorpe Palace, Bishopthorpe Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 596 478
- Coordinates
- 53.92321, -1.0939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stables to Bishopthorpe Palace is a building that originally served as stables, a coach house, and a dovecote, and is now divided into two dwellings. It was constructed between 1761 and 1763 by Peter Atkinson I for Archbishop Drummond, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is made of pinkish-brown brick, accented with red brick and ashlar dressings, and features a plain tile roof.
The building is three stories high with a single bay center flanked by two-story ranges, each having three first-floor windows. The center section has rusticated quoins and a segmental-headed carriage arch surrounded by quoined detailing. On the first floor, there is a Venetian window set in a round-headed recess that extends upwards into an open pediment. The second floor features a semicircular recess that contains a blind semicircular panel, topped with a segmental pediment.
The ground floor of the left range has two similar carriage arches, while the right side has a central doorway framed by quoined detailing, with 12-pane sash windows on either side. An ashlar band runs along the first floor, and all windows throughout the building are 6-pane sashes set under flat arches made of gauged brick. The interior includes an 18th-century open well staircase with turned balusters on the ground floor to the right.
Local climate
The Stables to Bishopthorpe Palace sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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