North Stables is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. A Post-medieval Stable.

North Stables

WRENN ID
stony-landing-elder
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Stable
Period
Post-medieval
Address
North Stables, Mapperton
OS grid reference
SY 503 996
Coordinates
50.79461, -2.70644
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The North Stables is a stable block built around 1670, featuring dressed stone walls and a stone slab roof with stone gable copings. It is a single-storey building with attics above. The south elevation has doorways at each end, both adorned with eared architraves, pulvinated friezes, and pediments above. Between these doorways are six windows designed with two lights and a mullion-and-transom layout, also featuring ovolo moulds and the same decorative elements as the doorways. The windows have cast-iron casements with multiple glazing bars and small panes. The doorways retain their original doors, and there is a pitch door on the east gable end that matches the architrave moulding. Inside, the west end contains a tack room with cobble flooring and a stone drain. The large stalls are partitioned with original posts that have moulded bases and capitals. A transverse staircase leads to the attics at the center of the building, and the roof construction is similar to that of the south range.

Local climate

North Stables receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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