Stable Block Approximately 5 Metres North East of Castle Hill House Including 2 Pairs of Gatepiers Flanking Its Western End is a Grade II* listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Stable block.

Stable Block Approximately 5 Metres North East of Castle Hill House Including 2 Pairs of Gatepiers Flanking Its Western End

WRENN ID
final-rubble-wren
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Stable block
OS grid reference
SS 672 284
Coordinates
51.03996, -3.8955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a stable block, later converted to estate offices, approximately 5 metres north-east of Castle Hill House, and it includes two pairs of gatepiers that mark its western end. Built in 1843 by Edward Blore, it has undergone 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of joint-lined, rendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and features a hipped slate roof. The overall plan is T-shaped.

The symmetrical main range has a central cupola, and a wing extends at a right angle to the right end, incorporating a carriageway arch and terminating in a square, domed pavilion. The design is in the Palladian style, matching that of the main house. The main range is two storeys high, arranged as a 4:2:4 bay facade. A modillion cornice runs along the top, above a low parapet with ornamental stone balls. A rusticated blind arcade of three bays is located on either side of a slightly projecting, rusticated two-bay pedimented centrepiece. A square central tower has a balustraded parapet that descends to an octagonal cupola, topped with a pineapple finial. Within the two central bays above the pediment are four-over-six pane sash windows. The flanking bays each have a series of blind semi-circular headed arches rising the full height of the facade; three bays on the left have four-over-eight pane sash windows, while one bay on the right has a similar window. Below those are sixteen-pane sashes with moulded architraves.

The gatepiers flanking the left end of the front facade have moulded caps surmounted by dog sculptures. The range at the right end breaks forward to create the carriageway arch, terminating in a two-storey pavilion with a domed roof and ball finial. A modillion cornice and plat-band decorate it. On its south side are two roundels containing busts, above sixteen-pane sashes with moulded architraves. The east-facing side of this range has similar roundels containing busts over sixteen-pane sashes flanking the carriageway arch, followed by five bays with roundels above sashes in plain reveals.

Local climate

Stable Block Approximately 5 Metres North East of Castle Hill House Including 2 Pairs of Gatepiers Flanking Its Western End receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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