Former Stable Block and Coach House is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1976. Stable-block and coach house.
Former Stable Block and Coach House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-turret-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1976
- Type
- Stable-block and coach house
- Address
- Former Stable Block and Coach House, Abberley
- OS grid reference
- SO 744 664
- Coordinates
- 52.29582, -2.37609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former stable block and coach house, now used as classrooms and a chapel, was built around 1867 for John Joseph Jones of Abberley Hall. It is constructed of red brick with freestone dressings and features a plain tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles. The building is designed in a plain Italianate style and is quadrangular in shape, enclosing a stable yard.
A central tower with a low pyramidal roof and overhanging eaves features a round archway and a panel of arms above a string course. The top stage of the tower has a 3-light round-headed window embellished with freestone quoins, imposts, and bands of blue brick. The flanking wings are slightly advanced and consist of four bays, with round-headed glazed casement windows set in semi-circular headed niches on the ground floor, linked by impost bands, and segmental headed sash windows with vertical glazing bars on the first floor, along with a freestone band.
To the right, there is a two-storey, four-bay former coachman's house, where the three right-hand bays are under a hipped roof. The fenestration and details match those of the main block, but all windows have vertical glazing bars, and there is a panelled door in a recessed section on the left.
The single-storey and attic side wings, which were formerly stables, have a mansard roof. They feature four varied segmental headed glazing bar sash and casement windows, along with panelled and plank doors on the ground floor, all beneath a plain band and square headed and pedimented dormers in the attic. The rear block, which was formerly the coach house, is now a chapel with six bays, five round-headed windows, and an off-centre door.
Local climate
Former Stable Block and Coach House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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