Stable Immediately West of the Griffin's Head is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Stable.
Stable Immediately West of the Griffin's Head
- WRENN ID
- drifting-screen-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Stable
- Address
- Stable Immediately West of the Griffin's Head, Nether Compton
- OS grid reference
- ST 597 175
- Coordinates
- 50.95553, -2.57451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a detached stable located immediately west of The Griffin's Head in Nether Compton. It dates from the 19th century and features rubble-stone walls with a rounded corner to the southwest. The roof is hipped and covered with Roman tiles. There is a plank door on the short front wall, which is from the 20th century, as well as a plank loft door above it, also from the 20th century.
Local climate
Stable Immediately West of the Griffin's Head receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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