Former Stables to Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Stable.
Former Stables to Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park)
- WRENN ID
- night-plinth-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Stable
- Address
- Former Stables to Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park), Bekesbourne Lane, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne
- OS grid reference
- TR 195 567
- Coordinates
- 51.26784, 1.14648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former stables to Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) is a quadrangular building dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is a single-storey structure made of brick and covered in stucco. The building features a hipped tiled roof and has a round-headed carriage entrance that includes a keystone. There are six round-headed windows, and the courtyard is cobbled.
Local climate
Former Stables to Howletts (Howletts Zoo Park) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% 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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