Stable at Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1978. Stable.

Stable at Chestnut Cottage

WRENN ID
eastward-cobble-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newark and Sherwood
Constituency
Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1978
Type
Stable
Address
Stable at Chestnut Cottage, Low Road, Besthorpe, NG23 7HJ
OS grid reference
SK 825 648
Coordinates
53.17422, -0.76681
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stable at Chestnut Cottage is a late 17th-century structure that features a pigeoncote above. It is built of brick with burnt headers and has a steeply pitched pantile roof. The building has a brick plinth, dentillated eaves, and a single coped gable. It is two storeys high and consists of a single bay. The central stable door is close-boarded and set in a rebated opening with a segmental head, flanked by two oval openings. Above the door, there is a loft opening with a timber lintel. The west gable has brick pigeonholes situated above.

Local climate

Stable at Chestnut Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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