Former Stables and Coach House Immediately North East of Foxhill House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 2000. Stables, coach house.

Former Stables and Coach House Immediately North East of Foxhill House

WRENN ID
pitched-iron-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 2000
Type
Stables, coach house
Address
Former Stables and Coach House Immediately North East of Foxhill House, Whiteknights Park, Earley
OS grid reference
SU 736 723
Coordinates
51.4455, -0.94155
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former stables and coach house, located immediately northeast of Foxhill House, were built in 1868 by Alfred Waterhouse for his own use. The structure was extended around 1900 and converted for use as student accommodation in the 20th century. It features red brick with blue brick diapering and has a shaped tile roof with gabled and half-hipped ends, along with corbelled brick verges and eaves. There are brick axial stacks with brick corbelled caps.

The building has an L-shaped plan, arranged around two sides of a small courtyard, with a short wing from circa 1900 on the southeast side and Foxhill House to the southwest. It is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style and has two storeys with asymmetrical elevations. The northeast front includes a segmental arch leading to the carriageway at the center, with a canted oriel in a small gable above. To the right, there is a loading door that has been converted into a window, and to the left, a half dormer. The northwest elevation features two gables with corbelled brick strings, while the right-hand half-hipped gable is part of the west wing. The southwest elevation faces the courtyard and has a segmental arch for the carriageway at the center, a lower wing from circa 1900 on the right, and the main wing on the left, which includes a half-hipped projection with a 20th-century ground floor window. The southeast gable end has a moulded brick oculus, and the sash windows lack glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Former Stables and Coach House Immediately North East of Foxhill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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