Stable at Woolseys Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Stable.

Stable at Woolseys Farm

WRENN ID
bitter-entrance-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1985
Type
Stable
Address
Stable at Woolseys Farm, Salhouse Road, Woodbastwick
OS grid reference
TG 339 135
Coordinates
52.66925, 1.45869
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stable at Woolsey's Farm is a mid-18th century structure with 20th-century alterations. It is built of red brick, featuring randomly placed vitrified bricks, and sits on a flint plinth. The roof is thatched. The building has two storeys, with a blocked stable doorway on the north wall, an inserted window opening, and two half-lozenge shaped ventilators made of honeycomb brickwork. The rear elevation includes a single-storey lean-to outshut, which is set on a herringbone brickwork plinth, and has central stable doors leading to both the stable's rear wall and the outshut.

Inside, the stable has a three-bay double butt purlin roof with wind braces on the lower purlins. The principal rafters have morticed collars that are not aligned with the tie beams. Most of the stable fittings have been replaced by 20th-century steel pens, but there is still a ledge for mangers along one gable wall, feed hatches from the hay loft against the gable walls, and holes for hay rack staves in the ceiling joists, indicating that horses were stalled facing the gables. The loft floor is supported by a chamfered spine beam with ogee stops. Tack pegs in the outshut suggest it served as a tack room.

Additionally, a low brick wall extends from the south-west corner of the building to connect with the adjacent barn. This stable is significant for its evidence of 18th-century horse stalling practices and the development of separate tack room provisions. It is part of a larger integrated farmstead that includes the farmhouse, barn, shelter sheds, and coach house, representing a rare surviving example of 18th-century farmstead planning.

Local climate

Stable at Woolseys Farm receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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