Stable Block, Adjoining Wall, Gateway and Outbuilding Adjoining to South West of Kentchurch Court is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1987. Stable block, outbuilding.
Stable Block, Adjoining Wall, Gateway and Outbuilding Adjoining to South West of Kentchurch Court
- WRENN ID
- hidden-wall-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1987
- Type
- Stable block, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SO 422 258
- Coordinates
- 51.92808, -2.8408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block, adjoining wall, gateway, and outbuilding located to the south-west of Kentchurch Court date from the mid-14th century for the gateway and early to mid-19th century for the stable block, wall, and outbuilding. They are constructed of sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, featuring part tiled and part Welsh slate roofs.
The two-storey outbuilding, which includes stabling and storage, is positioned immediately to the south-west of Kentchurch Court and is aligned north-west to south-east. It has three windows with decorative glazing and hoodmoulds, along with three windows and three doors on the ground floor, all featuring similar hoodmoulds. The south-east gable end displays a decorative Y-tracery window and battened doors.
The mid-14th century gateway, located to the south-east of the outbuilding, has a two-centred arched head with a label and moulded jambs, flanked by buttresses. The adjoining wall curves to the south-west and may include medieval materials; it encloses the yard to the south-east.
The main stable block, aligned north-west to south-east and parallel to the outbuilding across the yard, is a single-storey structure with a stabling range that includes a projecting porch and carriage entrance, raised verges, and decorative capping on the gables. It features two 3-light glazing bar casement windows on the left with hoodmoulds, similar windows at the rear, and two later inserted garage doorways on the right. A two-storey wing at the north-west end has a pair of garage doors on the ground floor and a roundel in the gable, with a projecting section further north-west that includes a large stack at the junction with the wing and a decorative oriel in the gable.
Local climate
Stable Block, Adjoining Wall, Gateway and Outbuilding Adjoining to South West of Kentchurch Court receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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