Stables and Mares' Foaling Boxes to East of Dairy Farm Buildings at Rear of Former Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1987. Stables, farm buildings.
Stables and Mares' Foaling Boxes to East of Dairy Farm Buildings at Rear of Former Dairy
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 1987
- Type
- Stables, farm buildings
- Address
- Stables and Mares' Foaling Boxes to East of Dairy Farm Buildings at Rear of Former Dairy, Briantspuddle, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle
- OS grid reference
- SY 820 930
- Coordinates
- 50.73722, -2.25635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables and mares' foaling boxes, built in 1917, are located to the east of the dairy farm buildings at the rear of the former dairy. Designed by MacDonald Gill in association with Halsey Ricardo for Sir Ernest Debenham's model dairy farm, the structure features brick and concrete block walls with hipped and gabled roofs covered in diamond set slates.
The stables are arranged around an enclosed rectangular stable yard with canted angles at each corner. The main entry is through the southwest canted angle. On the north side and part of the east and west sides of the yard, there is a range of horse boxes, with a continuous feeding passage between the boxes and the yard wall, accessible at either end and through timber double doors in the northeast and northwest canted angles. Above these angles are shallow vented gables with tumbled brick copings and kneelers. The partition walls between the boxes have vertical board dados.
The range of mares' foaling boxes features a colonnade of ten bays facing south, supported by circular precast concrete columns on simple chamfered concrete bases, with square imposts made of five corbelled tile courses. These support timber bressumers and principal beams of collar tie roof trusses. Three bays of the colonnade have been infilled later with concrete block walls, each containing a large timber framed opening with vertical timber slats. The floors are tiled, and there is a continuous feeding trough at the rear of the range between the inner brick piers and the north wall. The west end of the range is now roofless.
Local climate
Stables and Mares' Foaling Boxes to East of Dairy Farm Buildings at Rear of Former Dairy receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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