Stables at Alton Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. A Victorian Stable. 5 related planning applications.
Stables at Alton Towers
- WRENN ID
- ancient-tracery-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Stable
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Stables at Alton Towers, Farley, ST10 4DB
- OS grid reference
- SK 074 435
- Coordinates
- 52.98937, -1.89036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former stables at Alton Towers date from the early 19th century and have undergone later alterations. They feature an ashlar facade with edged herringbone tooling, set against painted brick buildings topped with plain tile roofs. The stables are arranged in four ranges surrounding a rectangular courtyard, with an entrance in the center of each range. The southwest facade is designed in the Gothic revival style. The building is two storeys high, with three-storey towers and turrets, a crenellated parapet, and pseudo-machicolations on the towers and central block. It has eleven bays, with a square tower at each corner and two square turrets flanking the central four-centred carriage arch. The pointed windows are mainly lancets, with larger first-floor windows in the towers featuring Y-tracery, and square-headed loops on the second floor of the towers. This structure is part of the significant garden layout at Alton Towers, which is included at Grade I on the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Gardens Register.
Local climate
Stables at Alton Towers receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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