The Former Stables at Ashburnham Place (Now Flats) is a Grade II* listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Stables, flats. 1 related planning application.
The Former Stables at Ashburnham Place (Now Flats)
- WRENN ID
- hollow-turret-birch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Stables, flats
- Address
- The Former Stables at Ashburnham Place (Now Flats), Kitchenham Road, TN33 9NE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 689 145
- Coordinates
- 50.90548, 0.40116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These buildings, dating from the early 18th century, form three sides of a courtyard and are influenced by the style of Vanbrugh. They consist of three separate blocks: a central coach-house and east and west stable blocks.
The main facade of the coach-house, facing a walled garden, features a recessed central portion of three sash windows with original glazing bars, the central window being a lunette. Flanking this are squat, three-storey towers, each with a lunette window on the second floor, a heavy cornice, a blocking course, and a pyramidical slate roof topped with a weather vane. Pilasters flank the ground floor, which has a recessed round-headed archway containing a lunette window. Walls connect the coach-house to the stable blocks, incorporating doorways and matching pilasters and lunette windows. The north side of the coach-house has five segmental-headed carriage doorways. Modern windows are above, with a cornice and parapet above.
The east and west stable blocks share a similar design, with a two-storey central portion featuring two windows on the ground floor, a doorway between them, and a lunette window on the first floor. Single-storey flanking wings extend from the central portions, each with two windows and a doorway. The cornice above the wings transitions to a string course along the central portion. All have slate roofs, with the central portions being pyramidical. Casement windows are fitted, along with keystones above the doorways.
A low wall with six piers closes the north side of the courtyard, with a taller, similar pair flanking the carriage entrance.
Local climate
The Former Stables at Ashburnham Place (Now Flats) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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