The Stable Block Used by Turf Research Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Stable block.
The Stable Block Used by Turf Research Institute
- WRENN ID
- fossil-baluster-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- The Stable Block Used by Turf Research Institute, St Ives Estate, Harden
- OS grid reference
- SE 094 390
- Coordinates
- 53.84741, -1.85786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stable Block, now used as offices, a laboratory, and a garage, was originally built in 1900 for the Turf Research Institute. It features hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressing and a slate roof, and is designed in a V-shape with a prominent central block. The central block has a two-storey, five-bay symmetrical facade with banded pilasters between the bays. The central three bays contain raised semicircular archways, which house three-light windows on the ground floor of the second and fourth bays. Each bay has a first-floor window with a segmental lintel, complemented by false ogee lintels and a domed cap. The wings of the building have coped gables with kneelers and finials. The right wing features a datestone set in a blind arch above a four-light flat-faced mullioned window. Additionally, a cross of the Knights Templars, likely from the 17th century, is set in the apex of the right gable. The left wing is a single-storey structure.
Local climate
The Stable Block Used by Turf Research Institute sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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