Stables,Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers Immediately East of the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Stables, coach house.
Stables,Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers Immediately East of the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- blind-bracket-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Stables, coach house
- Address
- Stables,Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers Immediately East of the Old Rectory, Rectory Road, Combe Martin
- OS grid reference
- SS 583 458
- Coordinates
- 51.19449, -4.02806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stables, courtyard walls, and gate piers immediately east of the Old Rectory date from 1846 and are constructed from local stone rubble. The building features a steeply pitched slate roof with coped gable ends and has an overall rectangular plan. It includes stabling for five horses on the right side and an integral coach house on the left, with a hay loft above the entire structure. The stables face a courtyard at the rear of the Old Rectory, which is enclosed by a wall that connects to the left-hand corner of the coach house, featuring a carriageway flanked by gate piers.
The exterior is two storeys high, with the entrance to the stables located at the centre, above which is a loft door set in the central gable. The entrance features 19th-century plank doors with a lintel that has the date inscribed. To the right of the doorway are two 2-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullion windows, while to the left is a single-light window. The coach house at the extreme left has timber framing above boarded panels, which include later pigeon holes. The original coach house doors have been replaced with 20th-century garage doors. A stone rubble wall encloses the left side of the stable yard behind the Old Rectory. The gate piers in the wall are square in plan and feature necking mould and caps. Inside the stables, there are original low stall partitions, wooden mangers, and troughs lined in lead.
Local climate
Stables,Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers Immediately East of the Old Rectory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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