Stables is a Grade I listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1960. A Early Modern Stables.
Stables
- WRENN ID
- ragged-lintel-russet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1960
- Type
- Stables
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Stables, Egloskerry
- OS grid reference
- SX 267 880
- Coordinates
- 50.66672, -4.4528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables, built in 1620 for Sir John Specott, are constructed from snecked stone and feature a moulded plinth and string courses. The steeply pitched slate roof has hipped ends, and there are stone rubble axial and rear lateral stacks. The building has a rectangular plan that includes stables with a loft and accommodation for stable hands above. There are garages in a shallow wing to the rear left and a farmhouse in a shallow wing to the rear right.
The stables are two storeys high and have a symmetrical front with nine bays, featuring a moulded plinth and a continuous moulded string. The central entrance was remodelled in 1676 by R. Edwards and includes a rounded granite arch with a hood mould and a segmental arched pediment formed by raising the string course. On either side of the entrance are three granite mullion and transom window openings, with low granite rounded arched openings in the third and seventh bays, each with hood moulds and triangular pediments above. The first floor has a central loft opening, also remodelled in 1676, which is slightly raised above the eaves level and features a rounded granite arch, hood mould, and triangular pediment. There are four ventilation slits on either side.
The rear elevation includes garage doors to the rear left and 17th-century mullion and transom windows that light the farmhouse in the wing to the rear right. The interior is not accessible, but the owner states that there are complete stalls and loose boxes, likely from the 18th century.
Local climate
Stables sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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