The Hunting Box, Stable to the North and Red Brick Walls on Northern, Southern and Western Boundaries is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1985. Stable.
The Hunting Box, Stable to the North and Red Brick Walls on Northern, Southern and Western Boundaries
- WRENN ID
- deep-passage-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1985
- Type
- Stable
- OS grid reference
- TL 444 256
- Coordinates
- 51.91068, 0.09831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hunting Box is a stable building located to the north, with red brick walls marking the northern, southern, and western boundaries. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and is constructed of brick with a plain tiled roof. The main range is two storeys high and features a projecting gabled staircase enclosure on the south side, along with a later projecting gabled wing to the north. The main roof slopes down to an outshut on the northern elevation. The building has casement windows and a central chimney stack. Inside, there are two small inglenook fireplaces, one of which includes a bread oven, and a well-crafted newel staircase. To the north is a stable block from the 18th century, also made of brick with a tiled roof, featuring lead-covered canopies over the stable doors. The boundary wall is made of good red brick and has been partially rebuilt.
Local climate
The Hunting Box, Stable to the North and Red Brick Walls on Northern, Southern and Western Boundaries sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
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