Stable, Gate Pier and Adjoining Tower, North-West of Ascot Place is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1972. Stable.

Stable, Gate Pier and Adjoining Tower, North-West of Ascot Place

WRENN ID
third-pillar-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bracknell Forest
Constituency
Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1972
Type
Stable
OS grid reference
SU 912 714
Coordinates
51.43435, -0.68808
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building consists of stables, a gate pier, and an adjoining tower located to the north-west of Ascot Place. It was constructed in the mid-18th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The materials used include red brick laid in Flemish bond, with an old tile hipped roof.

The structure has a rectangular plan with a square tower attached on the east side and is two stories high. It features a small rendered plinth, a brick string course at the first floor, and brick dentilled eaves. The east front has seven bays, with the second and fifth bays containing planked loft doors, while the other bays are blind with segmental brick arched heads. The ground floor has four windows, each accompanied by a planked stable door on the right. There is a late 19th-century iron lantern on scrolled brackets on the first floor, positioned between the third and fourth bays. On the right end, there is a pair of wooden 20th-century garage doors.

The south-west corner has a gate pier topped with a stone ball finial. An early 20th-century brick wall with a gate and two side panels of decorative ironwork is located between the north-east corner of the stable block and the north-west corner of the Estate Office. The south-east corner features another brick gate pier with a stone ball finial.

The west front has twelve bays, with the first two bays containing 2-light casement windows, while the remaining ten bays are blind, all with segmental heads. There is a brick string at the first floor level. A long brick wall runs north from the front, with other parts of this wall included separately under Bothy Cottage, the west and east yards, and the Greenhouse garden.

The tower has two stages and is topped with a pyramidal roof, which has a small bellcote with open arched sides, a lead ogee roof, and a ball finial. The second stage contains a dovecote with four small openings on the south face. The tower is otherwise plain, except for a simple wooden entrance door on the east face. The stables and adjoining tower form the west side of a stone-paved and cobbled stable yard.

Local climate

Stable, Gate Pier and Adjoining Tower, North-West of Ascot Place 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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