Stable Block and Attached Walls Approximately 9 Metres to South of Loton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Stable block. 2 related planning applications.
Stable Block and Attached Walls Approximately 9 Metres to South of Loton Park
- WRENN ID
- gentle-steel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Stable Block and Attached Walls Approximately 9 Metres to South of Loton Park, SY5 9AJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 356 146
- Coordinates
- 52.72607, -2.95476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block and attached walls, located approximately 9 metres south of Loton Park, were built in 1833 and 1835, likely by Thomas Jones of Chester. The structure is made of red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. It is designed in a U-plan and exhibits Tudor Gothic style, comprising one storey and an attic.
Notable architectural features include a chamfered plinth, parapeted gables with chamfered stone coping, moulded kneelers, and obelisk finials at the feet and apexes. The building has three brick ridge stacks, each with pairs of chamfered square shafts topped with moulding.
The south-west entrance front showcases chamfered stone mullioned and transomed windows, which are fitted with lozenge-pattern cast-iron casements and returned hoodmoulds. Flanking gabled wings contain 2-light attic windows and 3-light ground-floor windows. The central gabled break features a one-light window and a stone shield dated 1835 in the tympanum, along with a large hollow-moulded Tudor archway.
The right-hand return front includes three windows and a central gabled break with a chamfered octagonal clock surround in the tympanum, as well as smaller flanking gabled semi-dormers with 2-light mullioned windows. The north-west range is dated 1833.
There is a section of forecourt wall adjoining the stable block to the south-east, constructed of red sandstone ashlar on a coursed rubble base, designed in an L-plan with a chamfered plinth and coping, ramped up at each end, and a square gate pier to the right featuring trefoil-headed panelled sides and a gabled top. Additionally, a short section of garden wall adjoining to the north-east, built around 1870, is made of red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings, also in an L-plan, with a chamfered plinth and coping, topped with a globe finial at the corner and end.
The interior of the stable block has not been inspected. Thomas Jones was responsible for remodelling and extending Loton Park around 1830 and 1838. The stable block serves as one side of the forecourt to the house, opposite the former estate office.
Local climate
Stable Block and Attached Walls Approximately 9 Metres to South of Loton Park receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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