The Great Stables, The Harness Room Shop, The Donkey Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Stable range, shop, garage. 1 related planning application.

The Great Stables, The Harness Room Shop, The Donkey Stables

WRENN ID
second-pillar-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Stable range, shop, garage
Address
The Great Stables, The Harness Room Shop, The Donkey Stables, Hatfield Park, AL9 5NB
OS grid reference
TL 235 085
Coordinates
51.7621, -0.21058
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Great Stables, The Harness Room Shop, and The Donkey Stables is a stable range that has been converted into conveniences, a shop, stables, and a garage. It dates from the late 15th century, with additions and restoration from the 18th and late 19th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick and features plain tile roofs, with one storey and attics.

The long range facing the Palace includes a central archway through the late 15th-century block, which has a crown post roof. To the left, there is a cross wing that has 15th-century brickwork on the rear elevation and late 19th-century imitation half-timbering on the front. The right part of the range creates a shallow courtyard. The 18th-century block on the right has a half-hipped roof and a chequered red brick gable end with an attic floor band. There are two and three hipped dormers on the east and north sides of the courtyard. A long rear central extension mirrors the style of the front range and features wood-mullioned diamond-leaded casements.

Local climate

The Great Stables, The Harness Room Shop, The Donkey Stables sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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