North Stable Block at Woolley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. Stables.

North Stable Block at Woolley Hall

WRENN ID
third-cobble-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1966
Type
Stables
OS grid reference
SE 327 131
Coordinates
53.61385, -1.50592
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The North Stable Block at Woolley Hall is a building that dates from the early 19th century, possibly designed by Watson and Pritchett around 1805 to 1810. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. The building has a U-shaped plan that faces southeast and consists of two storeys.

The facade is symmetrical with nine bays, and there are seven-bay symmetrical wings. It has a continuous plinth and a first-floor sill band. The central range features bays 2, 5, and 7, which project slightly forward and include semicircular-arched recesses on the ground floor. The first floor of bays 2 and 7 has tall 24-pane sash windows, while bay 5 features a Diocletian window and a pedimented gable, which has a tympanum adorned with a heraldic plaque carved with the Wentworth griffin. At the top of the gable is a clock tower with an open rotunda and a lead dome, topped by a weathervane featuring a griffin crest.

The other bays have 16-pane sash windows with lintels and projecting sills, and the building has an eaves cornice and a hipped roof. The outer bays, which connect the main blocks to the wings, have round-headed doorways and are under a low roof. The wings have their inner returns with three central bays that project forward under open pedimented gables, featuring central doorways flanked by narrower windows and a central round-headed window on the first floor with an impost band. The wings also have hipped roofs, with the west wing featuring a gable stack.

Local climate

North Stable Block at Woolley Hall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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