Stable Block Immediately West of Grilstone 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 Immediately West of Grilstone

WRENN ID
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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 Immediately West of Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton
OS grid reference
SS 730 246
Coordinates
51.00721, -3.81057
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stable block immediately west of Grilstone was built in 1834 for William Thorne, possibly designed by J. Cock of South Molton. It is constructed of stone rubble and has a rendered front with a bitumen-painted hipped slate roof. The building has a small rectangular plan and features external stone steps leading up to the first floor at the rear, along with a likely later two-storey lean-to on the right side.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that includes a wide doorway on the left, featuring paired timber doors with a keyblock, which has likely been enlarged. To the right is a smaller 19th or 20th-century plank door. The first floor has a three-light transomed window with a segmental arched head and keyblock. The rear elevation, facing the farmyard, also has external stone steps leading up to a loft door. Although referred to as a stable, it may have served other purposes. The building has group value with Grilstone and the farm buildings to the north.

Local climate

Stable Block Immediately West of Grilstone 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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