Melton Constable Hall Stable Court West and North Wings is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1984. Stable.

Melton Constable Hall Stable Court West and North Wings

WRENN ID
hollow-balcony-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1984
Type
Stable
OS grid reference
TG 031 320
Coordinates
52.84719, 1.01559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Melton Constable Hall Stable Court consists of the west and north wings, with origins dating from the late 17th century and a later addition in 1810. The building is constructed of red brick, gault brick, and cement render, featuring a slated and copper roof. The west front has seven bays and a central entrance arch topped with a cupola. It is a single storey with attics, and the entrance arch contains boarded double doors with six panels each. The entrance is flanked by red brick piers and features stone imposts and a keystone, along with a cemented tympanum. Above the entrance is a stone platband with two oculus windows, each adorned with four stone keystones. The building has a deep wooden eaves cornice and a hipped roof that supports a central wooden cupola with copper flushings. The cupola's plinth section features two clocks and two sundials set under segmental and triangular headed pediments, along with an arched bellcote that has four arched sides topped with a copper roof and weather vane.

The wings on either side of the entrance are three bays wide, with brick piers and arches filled with cement rendered walls that have 20th-century sash windows. The wings also feature a brick modillion cornice and dormer sashes with two segmental and one triangular headed design on each side. The rear of the building includes cast iron columns that support the first floor. The north wing, which forms part of the stable court, is made of gault brick with a slated roof and contains sash windows and panelled stable and carriage doors. Additionally, there is a further single storey red brick courtyard to the north, which has a brick pier with an urn gate pier at the northeast entrance. The north wall of the north wing and the east gable wall of the same range have rusticated openings, suggesting they may have been re-used from a barn depicted in Kip and Knyff's aerial perspective of Melton Constable.

Local climate

Melton Constable Hall Stable Court West and North Wings receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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