Stables to East of Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Stables, agricultural outbuilding.

Stables to East of Brook House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 2000
Type
Stables, agricultural outbuilding
Address
Stables to East of Brook House, Bitterley
OS grid reference
SO 541 775
Coordinates
52.39447, -2.67493
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stables to the east of Brook House, dated 1726, are a two-storey building with an attic, now serving as an agricultural outbuilding. Constructed of brick, the stables feature a rubble stone plinth topped with a moulded brick cap and brick-coped gables, all under a plain-tile roof. There are later 19th-century lean-to extensions at the ends and rear.

The south-west front has a five-window range with segmental-arched openings. The first floor has boarded openings, two of which are brick-blocked, while the ground level features three boarded openings and two stable doors. Brick storey bands are present at the first and second floors, and there is an inset stone tablet displaying the date 1726 and the initials R S. Dovecote holes and ledges are located under the eaves on the left side.

At the rear, there is a plain boarded door with an oak frame and a 18th-century oak-framed mullion window with cyma-moulding to the right, which is covered by a 19th-century lean-to at the first-floor level, built over a brick-vaulted ground-floor retaining wall.

Inside, the ground and first floors feature chamfered bridging beams with ogee chamfer stops. The upper floors are divided between a hayloft on the right and living accommodation on the left. The roof consists of double trenched purlins with three upper cruck trusses: two closed trusses flanking one open truss. These trusses have shouldered principals, cruck spurs, high collars, posts framing the door-head, vertical struts, and a middle rail, with all purlins and open truss members chamfered. An attic door incorporates reused 16th-century carved panelling.

Local climate

Stables to East of Brook House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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