Stables to Langleybury House (Flats 7 to 10 Inclusive) is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. Stable block, flats. 2 related planning applications.

Stables to Langleybury House (Flats 7 to 10 Inclusive)

WRENN ID
tilted-doorway-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Type
Stable block, flats
Address
Stables to Langleybury House (Flats 7 to 10 Inclusive), Abbots Langley, WD4 8RN
OS grid reference
TL 077 001
Coordinates
51.68986, -0.44296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stables to Langleybury House, now converted into flats, were built in 1726 for Sir R. Raymond. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings and features a hipped tiled roof. The building has a symmetrical facade with a central entrance that includes six panelled double doors and a semi-circular fanlight set in a key-blocked brick arch. This arch is supported by moulded stone impost blocks and a plinth.

Above the entrance, there is a round light in a square recess with a moulded sill, apron, and guttae. The building has banded rusticated quoins and a stone cornice topped with a raised panel in a stone-coped parapet. The outer bays are fitted with glazing bar sashes that are recessed and have segmental heads, stone sills, and a mix of 12-pane and 9-pane windows, with additional windows in the outer bays of the link sections. The end bays feature ground floor blocked arches with key blocks and impost blocks, along with first-floor sashes.

A continuous plat band runs along the parapet, and there are projecting piers at the ends. A 19th-century clock turret and bell cupola are located on the ridge at the center of the building. The clock is set into a brick base with recessed panels, supported by scrolled diagonal buttresses, and topped with a cornice leading to an octagonal Doric bell stage with a weathervane finial. The two-bay returns have pilaster strips, and the rear features a central entrance with a segmental head and outer double doors. The first floor has 9-pane sashes and tripartite flanking center bays, with close eaves and inserted stacks.

Inside, the right half of the stable block retains 19th-century stalls and mangers, complete with iron ball finials on the timber posts. The stables face Langleybury House across an entrance court.

Local climate

Stables to Langleybury House (Flats 7 to 10 Inclusive) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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