Stables circa 30 metres east of Elton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. A C19 Stables.
Stables circa 30 metres east of Elton Hall
- WRENN ID
- slow-rampart-weasel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1988
- Type
- Stables
- OS grid reference
- TL 089 929
- Coordinates
- 52.52379, -0.39583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables located approximately 30 metres east of Elton Hall were built around 1870 and include a south-west range of earlier stables from the early 18th century. They were constructed for the 4th Earl of Carysfort and feature rock-faced and hammer-dressed limestone with freestone dressings, topped with Welsh slated roofs. The building is one storey with attics and consists of ranges of stables, coach houses, and cottages that enclose two stable yards.
The main entrance archway is situated in the north-west range and is topped by a two-stage clock tower. The north-west elevation is symmetrical, featuring an embattled parapet on the tower and flanking walls, plain corbelled parapets on the gabled end bays, and a chamfered plinth. The entrance has two-centred inner and outer arches with a brick vault, and the arch is decorated with two chamfered and moulded orders, the arms of the fourth Earl of Carysfort, and a clock in recesses above the archway, flanked by two single-light windows with chamfered and hollow-chamfered reveals and a moulded label. The end bays have stone mullioned casement windows on both the ground and first floors.
The stable yard facades feature boarded stable doors and outer cottage doors with cast iron hinges marked 'Charles Collinge Lambeth', along with rectangular fanlights. There are also boarded loft doors with gabled parapets and coach house doors shaped to segmental arches. The stable windows are made of cast iron with large geometric patterned panes, while the cottage windows have two or three casement lights with chamfered reveals. The dormer windows on the facade have parapets similar to the loft doors and are topped with ball finials.
The interior of the stables remains largely complete, and the original plan has not been altered.
Local climate
Stables circa 30 metres east of Elton Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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