Stable Block North East of the Rectory Including Wall to the Stable Yard and Walls to the Kitchen Garden to the East is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1988. Stable block.

Stable Block North East of the Rectory Including Wall to the Stable Yard and Walls to the Kitchen Garden to the East

WRENN ID
quiet-corbel-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1988
Type
Stable block
Address
Stable Block North East of the Rectory Including Wall to the Stable Yard and Walls to the Kitchen Garden to the East, Bishop's Nympton
OS grid reference
SS 759 239
Coordinates
51.00191, -3.76965
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stable block, along with the wall to the stable yard and the walls to the kitchen garden, is located north-east of the Rectory in Bishop's Nympton. It was likely built around 1836, the same time as the house, although the stable yard wall, which is partly made of cob, may be older. The stable has undergone minor alterations in the late 19th century.

The stable block is constructed from roughcast stone rubble and features a slate roof with gabled ends and some brick detailing. There is a brick chimney stack on the rear left. The kitchen garden walls are made of stone rubble, topped with slate capping and red ridge tiles, while the stable yard wall is similar but includes roughcast cob on stone rubble footings.

The layout includes a large rectangular kitchen garden located behind the Rectory, extending along Parsonage Hill, with the stable yard wall continuing to the west. The stable is situated in the north-east corner of the stable yard, adjacent to the west wall of the kitchen garden, and has a gable facing Parsonage Hill with a window overlooking the lane.

On the exterior, the stable features a loft accessed by a likely 19th-century plank door with an overlight, positioned to the right of center and flanked by 16-pane sash windows, some of which are missing glazing bars. Above the plank door is a 19th-century loft door, with blind recesses on either side. To the left, there is a pair of 20th-century plank carriage doors beneath a 19th-century loft door. The left side facing Parsonage Hill has a 4-pane 20th-century sash window with a brick lintel and jambs. The stable yard and kitchen garden walls are buttressed on both sides, and the stable yard is paved with pitched stones. The interior of the stable has not been inspected. This stable block is part of a well-preserved early 19th-century group that includes the Rectory.

Local climate

Stable Block North East of the Rectory Including Wall to the Stable Yard and Walls to the Kitchen Garden to the East sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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