Stable at Little Offley (70 Metres to North North East of House) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Stable.

Stable at Little Offley (70 Metres to North North East of House)

WRENN ID
ancient-flint-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
Stable
OS grid reference
TL 129 285
Coordinates
51.94419, -0.35751
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This stable, located 70 meters to the north-north-east of Little Offley house, dates back to the 17th century. It features a timber frame resting on a brick sill and is covered in dark weatherboarding. The building has a steeply pitched, half-hipped roof that is now made of corrugated asbestos. It is a long structure with seven bays facing south, each with stable doors. The design includes jowled posts with curved braces supporting the tie-beams. The roof is a clasped-purlin type, with one purlin on each slope, and the trusses incorporate collar and queen-struts. Notably, one tie-beam has been reused from an open-truss of a domestic hall, featuring a long mortice with multiple peg-holes for arched braces.

Local climate

Stable at Little Offley (70 Metres to North 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 80% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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