Stables and Shelter Shed at Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Stables, shelter shed.
Stables and Shelter Shed at Manor Farm
- WRENN ID
- dim-pavement-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Stables, shelter shed
- Address
- Stables and Shelter Shed at Manor Farm, the Strand, Steeple Ashton
- OS grid reference
- ST 907 571
- Coordinates
- 51.31313, -2.13435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables and shelter shed at Manor Farm, located in Steeple Ashton, date from the late 17th century, with the shelter shed added in the mid-19th century. The buildings are constructed of random rubble stone with stone slate hipped roofs for the stables, while the 7-bay shelter shed, which is built at right angles to the stables, is made of Flemish bond brick and features a Bridgwater tiled roof.
The single-storey square stable to the north has a large segmental-headed opening without a door on the west side, with bull's eye windows on either side. Above this is a planked loft door, and there is a square-headed opening with flanking bull's eyes and a loft door on the east side. A concrete block lean-to has been added to the north.
A short single-storey stable connects the northern and southern stables, featuring a planked door on the east and two bull's eye windows on the west, along with a continuously chamfered plinth. The south stable, which was formerly a dovecote, has a planked stable door on the west side and blocked openings at the rear; its cupola was removed in the 1960s. The attached shelter shed has a 7-bay open front that faces the stock yard on the south side.
Inside the former dovecote, stone pigeon boxes line the walls, while the stable on the north side has wooden mangers along the walls, indicating it has likely always been used as a stable. Both units are currently used for rearing calves.
Local climate
Stables and Shelter Shed at Manor Farm 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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