Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse is a Grade II* listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1963. Coach house and stable block.
Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-nave-winter
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire MP: Mike Wood (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1963
- Type
- Coach house and stable block
- Address
- Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse, Wodehouse Lane, Wombourne
- OS grid reference
- SO 886 935
- Coordinates
- 52.53949, -2.16949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The coach house and stable block at The Wodehouse is an early 18th-century structure with late 19th-century alterations and internal remodelling. It is built of red brick and features plain tile roofs, with 19th-century brick end stacks that have star-shaped shafts.
The building has two storeys and a moulded eaves cornice. It is arranged in a pattern of 1:3:3:3:1 bays, with a central pedimented break that includes a first-floor band. There are two gabled crosswings that have coped verges and draped vase finials at the corners. The windows are mainly glazing bar sashes set beneath gauged brick segmental arches with raised keys. Each crosswing has a ground-floor Venetian window and a niche in the gable. The central break features two gauged brick segmental carriage arches with boarded doors. The flanking recesses each contain a central 19th-century panelled door with a moulded architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a bracketed pediment, along with a segmental arched opening above, which has a moulded architrave and raised key. The left-hand opening is blocked, while the right-hand one has a part-glazed two-leaf door. At the top, there is a central cupola with semi-circular arched openings, an ogee-shaped dome, and a dragon weather vane. Inside, the return of each crossing has a 19th-century panelled door with a rectangular overlight and a wedge-shaped plaster lintel that is grooved as voussoirs, along with a raised key and a first-floor keyed oculus.
Some stable fittings remain inside, including loose boxes and hay racks. The northern half of the building was converted into a music room in the late 19th century, likely for T B Shaw-Hellier.
Local climate
Coach house and stable block at the Wodehouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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