Former Service and Kitchen Wing and Adjoining Stables, Coachman's and Groom's Quarters, Stable Yard and Archway to the Rocks, Coach Houses, Workshops and Stores, High Wall with Workshops and Outbuildings to the West Side Enclosing Yard and Two Archways is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. Service wing, stables, workshops. 3 related planning applications.
Former Service and Kitchen Wing and Adjoining Stables, Coachman's and Groom's Quarters, Stable Yard and Archway to the Rocks, Coach Houses, Workshops and Stores, High Wall with Workshops and Outbuildings to the West Side Enclosing Yard and Two Archways
- WRENN ID
- gentle-bailey-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Service wing, stables, workshops
- Address
- Former Service and Kitchen Wing and Adjoining Stables, Coachman's and Groom's Quarters, Stable Yard and Archway to the Rocks, Coach Houses, Workshops and Stores, High Wall with Workshops and Outbuildings to the West Side Enclosing Yard and Two Archways, SN14 8AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 790 705
- Coordinates
- 51.43359, -2.30332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former service and kitchen wing, adjoining stables, coachman’s and groom’s quarters, stable yard, archway to The Rocks, coach houses, workshops, and stores date from the mid-19th century. Originally part of The Rocks, a country house of around 1610, the complex was extended and given a castellated Gothic style in the mid-19th century. Much of the main house was demolished by dynamite in around 1955, but the buildings described were restored in the 1970s and 1980s and are now used as houses, workshops, and garages.
The service and kitchen wing, to the north of the main house remains, along with the adjoining stable block. The wing presents an irregular and asymmetrical appearance with an L-plan tower that has an embattled parapet, a string course with corbels, and three stages, featuring casement windows with hood moulds. An ashlar wing with a slate roof projects southward, displaying a three-light mullioned and transomed oriel window. A ruinous three-storey wing to the east includes a three-bay arcaded passage with four-centred arches.
The stable range to the north has an embattled parapet and features six bays with C20 windows and doors in plain stone surrounds on the ground floor. A two-stage square tower with a pointed window and a circular stair tower is located to the left. A pointed arch connects the former stables to the coachman's house and grooms quarters, and to workshops and stores. A further two-stage square tower, with C20 windows, one featuring chamfered mullions and surrounds under a drip mould, is connected to a wing with a crow-stepped gable end and single-light windows under hood moulds.
Behind this tower are two joined circular towers, one taller than the other, both with embattled parapets and narrow pointed windows. A tall single-light window with a cusped head and drip mould is situated to the left. A stableyard is enclosed by a high rubble wall with an embattled parapet ranging from 8 to 20 feet in height, and contains two pointed archways, also with embattled parapets, providing access. A former coach house, five yards to the east of the main ranges, features cross-loop and loop windows, C20 doors and a three-light casement window under a hood mould.
Local climate
Former Service and Kitchen Wing and Adjoining Stables, Coachman's and Groom's Quarters, Stable Yard and Archway to the Rocks, Coach Houses, Workshops and Stores, High Wall with Workshops and Outbuildings to the West Side Enclosing Yard and Two Archways receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
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