Stables, Coach Houses, Motor House and Canopies, Stablehands Accommodation, Central Fountain, Front Walls and Two Sets of Gates and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1984. Stables, coach house, fountain. 4 related planning applications.

Stables, Coach Houses, Motor House and Canopies, Stablehands Accommodation, Central Fountain, Front Walls and Two Sets of Gates and Gatepiers

WRENN ID
shifting-column-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1984
Type
Stables, coach house, fountain
Address
Stables, Coach Houses, Motor House and Canopies, Stablehands Accommodation, Central Fountain, Front Walls and Two Sets of Gates and Gatepiers, Wraxall and Failand, BS48 1NS
OS grid reference
ST 508 713
Coordinates
51.43886, -2.7084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stables, coach houses, motor house, canopies, stablehand’s accommodation, central fountain, front walls, and gates and gatepiers date from 1888 and were possibly designed by Henry Woodyer. They are constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, some timber framing, and have plain tiled roofs with coped verges and moulded kneelers.

The buildings enclose an outer and an inner yard. The northeast range of the outer yard comprises single-story stables with a loft above, featuring six two-light cross windows with four-centred heads and chamfered surrounds, running under a continuous string course. A central plank door, set within a chamfered surround with a four-centred head, provides access, alongside a plank door on the upper floor to the left, and a single-bay lean-to at the right with a large four-centred archway.

The southeast range of the outer yard originally housed stable hands but is now two cottages. It includes a central segmental-headed archway surmounted by a timber-framed gable resting on corbels and containing a four-light casement window. To the left is a two-story, two-bay cottage with a projecting gabled wing, two and three-light casement windows, and a stone dormer. To the right is a single-story and attic cottage of three bays with single and two-light casement windows, and a central projecting tower.

The southwest wing, formerly coach houses and now a house, is timber-framed on a rubble plinth, with an overhanging, bracketed roof and four gabled, barge-boarded dormers. It incorporates outer double plank doors and an inner single door, along with small upper windows.

The outer yard is enclosed by low rubble walls, with an off-centre pair of large square ashlar piers surmounted by ironwork and a lantern. A low ashlar wall encloses a quatrefoil basin in the centre of the yard, which contains a fountain with a twisted column, foliate capital, sundial, and finial.

The inner yard’s north range is similar to the outer yard but extends seven bays, featuring brick dormers and three-light casement windows. The southwest range of coach houses has six arched entries on its outer (southeast facing) lower side, and seven slit vents above; the inner side has four double coach-house doors. A motor house, likely added around the early 20th century, is located to the left of the coach house on the front, with large double doors and a glazed two-bay canopy on the right; this canopy has an iron-framed, glazed three-span hipped roof and an advanced coach-house. The southwest side of the yard is enclosed by coped rubble with an arched fountain built into the centre.

Local climate

Stables, Coach Houses, Motor House and Canopies, Stablehands Accommodation, Central Fountain, Front Walls and Two Sets of Gates and Gatepiers receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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