Coach House at Elston Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Coach house.
Coach House at Elston Towers
- WRENN ID
- distant-mantel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Coach house
- Address
- Coach House at Elston Towers, Lodge Lane
- OS grid reference
- SK 747 483
- Coordinates
- 53.02727, -0.88695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coach House at Elston Towers is a late 19th-century building constructed of red and yellow brick, featuring a hipped slate roof and a yellow brick eaves band. It is set on a plinth and consists of two storeys with four bays. The first floor has a yellow brick band adorned with decorative terracotta panels, and both the ground and first floors have sill and hood mould bands.
The ground floor includes a large triangular arched doorway with a plank door, a single round arched casement with hexagonal and lozenge glazing bars to the right, a part-blocked triangular arched doorway further right, and a similar blocked window on the far right. Above this, there is a pair of similar lights and to the right, a single similar light, along with another triangular arched doorway with a plank door and a single similar window opening on the far right.
The left wall features a doorway, above which is a circular fixed light with decorative glazing bars, flanked by single recessed panels with yellow brick surrounds that contain painted shields decorated with single fleurons. To the right, there is a projecting four-storey tower that was formerly topped with a clock but now has a 20th-century stack.
The tower has a yellow brick cornice with attenuated brackets and is also set on a plinth. It features ground and first floor hood mould bands, as well as first, second, and third floor bands, all in yellow brick. The tower includes a triangular arched doorway with double doors, above which are similar pairs of window openings, with the right one featuring glazing bars. Above this, there is a single rectangular inset panel with yellow brick blind lancets, and on the top floor, a single rectangular panel with a yellow brick surround and an inner yellow brick panel containing a decorative quatrefoil.
Local climate
Coach House at Elston Towers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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