Stables C120m West of Middleton Tower is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Stables.
Stables C120m West of Middleton Tower
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Stables
- Address
- Stables C120m West of Middleton Tower, Tower End, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 667 175
- Coordinates
- 52.73004, 0.4679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables, built around 1870, are located approximately 120 meters west of Middleton Tower. Constructed from carstone with gault brick dressings, the building features a roof covered in plain tiles with a decorative ridge. It has a range of two heights, with a cross wing to the south.
The west facade facing the yard consists of three bays, with the left two bays being two stories high. This section includes a gault sawtooth cornice and a central doorway with a pointed segmental head. On either side of the doorway, there are double lights with glazing bars. Above the doorway, there is a loft door with a balcony and a gable featuring brick tumbling-in. The first floor of the third bay has a double casement window with glazing bars.
To the left, bays four and five are higher, with a gable on the cross wing of bay five and a cross stack positioned between bays four and five. Bay four has a large archway leading to an inner passage, while bay six features larger arch and coach-house doors. There is also a double casement with glazing bars on the first floor of bay four, and bay five has a gable with brick tumbling-in and a Gothick Y-tracery light. The north arch includes brick tumbling-in, with three-light casements on both the ground and first floors.
On the rear (east side), bay one is slightly forward and gabled. Bays three to five each have a pair of stone-dressed Gothick openings with leaded lights on the ground floor, and each bay has a gablet dormer for ventilation in the attic.
Inside, bays one to three feature a zig-zag gault brick floor and hexagonal white glazed tiles on the walls. The stable loose boxes are partitioned with cast iron bars and posts. The stables are included for their group value.
Local climate
Stables C120m West of Middleton Tower 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 81% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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