Stable Block to Woolverstone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Stable block, coach-house.

Stable Block to Woolverstone Hall

WRENN ID
tattered-zinc-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1955
Type
Stable block, coach-house
OS grid reference
TM 193 384
Coordinates
52.00128, 1.19434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stable block to Woolverstone Hall, built in the 1770s, originally served as a stable and coach-house but has since been converted into accommodation. It was designed by John Johnson for William Berners and features Tudor brickwork alongside a mid-19th century water tower and later alterations. The front is made of Woolpit brick, with the entrance adorned in rusticated Portland stone and Coade stone ornamentation. The returns and courtyard interior are constructed from red brick, some of which has been reused. The building has slate roofs and a quadrangle plan, standing two storeys high.

The entrance range consists of nine bays, with a central carriage arch that has a mask keystone and paterae in the spandrels. Above the arch is an open dentilled pediment that contains a clock. Each wing has three recessed bays, featuring round-arched recesses on the ground floor and an ashlar band at the first floor, where casement windows are located. The outer bays have full-height round-arched recesses with thermal windows at the first floor. A parapet with a rectangular panel, flanked by paterae and topped with ball finials, crowns the structure.

At the entrance bay, there is a four-stage tower with a rusticated lower part, pilastered angles, and arcading above, along with a frieze and dentilled pedimented gables. The courtyard interior includes round-arched recesses and a first-floor band with segment-arched six-pane sashes above. 20th-century alterations include the addition of garage doors on one side. The site was previously occupied by The Old Hall, which was demolished when Woolverstone Hall was constructed, and the stable block incorporates some of the reused bricks from that earlier building.

Local climate

Stable Block to Woolverstone Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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