Stables and Mounting Block About 30 Metres North West of Chilston Park is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Stables.

Stables and Mounting Block About 30 Metres North West of Chilston Park

WRENN ID
pale-tracery-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
Stables
OS grid reference
TQ 894 501
Coordinates
51.21932, 0.7111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a stable complex located about 30 metres north-west of Chilston Park, dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, with some 19th-century additions. It is constructed from roughly coursed blocks of galleted stone, featuring red brick dressings, with a 19th-century range made entirely of red brick and a plain tile roof. The overall layout is an irregular U-shape.

The west range was rebuilt in the 19th century and consists of one storey and an attic, set on a stone plinth. The roof is hipped at the south end of the east wing and includes five hipped dormers with leaded lights facing the courtyard, as well as two dormers with moulded cornices on the short east wing. The long north elevation has four blocked doorways, while the east side features two double doors. There are also three boarded doors with rectangular fanlights leading to the courtyard on the south side, along with external stairs leading to the attic.

The 19th-century range has coped gable ends and a central gabled porch with flanking pilasters, which houses a series of round-headed double doors. At the south end of the east wing, there is a mounting block consisting of five stone steps, which incorporates part of a re-used early 16th-century stone fireplace adorned with the Hussey arms in the spandrels.

Local climate

Stables and Mounting Block About 30 Metres North West of Chilston Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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