Stables About 5 Metres West of Bow Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Stables.
Stables About 5 Metres West of Bow Hill House
- WRENN ID
- buried-rubble-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- Stables
- OS grid reference
- TQ 694 519
- Coordinates
- 51.24123, 0.4265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a stable located about 5 metres west of Bow Hill House, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond and features a slate roof. The central coach-house has a gable end facing the yard, with broad lean-to stables on either side. The coach-house is two storeys tall, and its gable end projects forward from the lean-tos. There is a dentilled brick eaves band and verge on each lean-to, leading up to a similar band and verge that form a pedimented gable on the coach-house, which also includes a clock face within the gable.
On the first floor of the coach-house, there is one three-light horizontally-sliding sash window. The ground floor has irregular fenestration, including one Diocletian window with rubbed brick voussoirs on each lean-to, and one two-light centrally-pivoting window with a segmental head on the long side of each lean-to. Each lean-to has a stable door with a splayed stone on a rendered lintel at the outer end, and tall double doors with splayed brick voussoirs at the gable end of the coach-house. Additionally, there are small tapering stones carved with masks in relief on each side of the coach-house window and above each stable door.
Inside, there are three stalls in each lean-to, each with a rectangular opening above that connects to the first-floor hay-loft over the coach-house. Each opening on the right side has a semicircular wooden drum or vertical chute between it and the hay-rack. The stalls in the left lean-to feature iron newel posts with knob finials. There are stairs to the hay-loft at the front end of the right lean-to, with an opening for similar access on the left.
Local climate
Stables About 5 Metres West of Bow Hill House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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