Ayton and Shipton Court Stables North Wing is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1986. Stables.
Ayton and Shipton Court Stables North Wing
- WRENN ID
- scarred-hall-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1986
- Type
- Stables
- Address
- Ayton and Shipton Court Stables North Wing, High Street, Shipton-Under-Wychwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 277 175
- Coordinates
- 51.85593, -1.59915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ayton and Shipton Court Stables, North Wing, is a former stable building that has been converted. It incorporates 17th-century ranges and underwent remodelling around 1903-1906 by Perkins and Bulmer. The structure is L-shaped, with the road front angled, designed in a Vanbruggian style. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and features hipped Cotswold stone roofs, along with a 20th-century corniced stone ridge chimney. Although it appears to be a single storey, it is actually one and a half storeys due to the conversion.
The most prominent feature of the road front is an arched gateway located to the right of centre within a gabled ashlar break. This gateway includes ball finials, a segmental arch, and imposts that extend as bands in both directions above the arched windows—three to the left and one to the right—along with raised quoins. The panelled doors from 1903-1906 are adorned with attractive Art Nouveau style metalwork. The multi-gabled south wing has been altered and modernised, but retains one original two-light mullion window at the east end. This front elevation is significant for its contribution to the formal setting of Shipton Court.
Local climate
Ayton and Shipton Court Stables North Wing receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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