Stable at Brown's Orchard 6 Metres to North East of House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Stable.

Stable at Brown's Orchard 6 Metres to North East of House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Stable
OS grid reference
TL 040 136
Coordinates
51.81189, -0.49145
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This stable, located 6 meters northeast of the house at Brown's Orchard, dates from around 1600. It features a timber frame and is covered in dark weatherboarding with a steep old red tile roof. The stable consists of four bays and is situated beside a gate, extending along the northern boundary and facing south. It has straight braces to the wallplates and curved braces to the cambered tie-beams. The intermediate trusses include inclined queen-posts, while the end trusses are equipped with collars and queen-struts. The roof is a clasped-purlin design with curved wind-braces.

Local climate

Stable at Brown's Orchard 6 Metres to North East of House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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