Coach House at Rufford Abbey and Adjoining Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1975. Coach house.
Coach House at Rufford Abbey and Adjoining Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- bitter-wall-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1975
- Type
- Coach house
- OS grid reference
- SK 645 647
- Coordinates
- 53.1757, -1.03555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The coach house at Rufford Abbey, now used as craft workshops and a residence, dates from the late 19th century and 20th century, likely designed by John Birch. It features irregularly coursed ashlar and brick construction with a hipped and gabled plain tile roof added around 1971. The building has deep eaves supported by concrete brackets and consists of two storeys, with a square plan that is six bays wide. The windows are stone mullioned and include cross casements.
On the north front, there are six chamfered carriage openings fitted with glazed doors from 1971. The south front includes two gabled rear wings, each with two casements, and above them, two mullioned casements along with a rainwater head, also from 1971. The west front features an off-centre square tower with two stages, a concave hipped roof, a first-floor band, and bracketed eaves. It has a chamfered doorway and a single cross casement above.
Adjoining the coach house to the north is a boundary wall that has shaped ashlar coping and a central elliptical archway with a chamfered ashlar surround. The wall also features a stepped coped gable with ramped brackets, and above each side of the archway, there are chamfered panels with blank shields. To the north, there is a chamfered ashlar doorway.
Local climate
Coach House at Rufford Abbey and Adjoining Boundary Wall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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