Bobble Barn and Adjoining Loose Box and Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. Barn, stables. 2 related planning applications.
Bobble Barn and Adjoining Loose Box and Stables
- WRENN ID
- vast-grate-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- Barn, stables
- Address
- Bobble Barn and Adjoining Loose Box and Stables, GL54 2ND
- OS grid reference
- SP 196 201
- Coordinates
- 51.87949, -1.71643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century threshing barn with adjoining loose box and stables. The barn is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone with dressed cream-coloured quoins. It has a corrugated asbestos roof, while the loose box has a corrugated iron roof and the stable block a roof of stone slate.
The rectangular barn features a central, two-storey gabled porch projecting on the west side. The porch originally had a two-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned window to the first floor, which served as a granary, but the mullion has since been removed. A low, double-width doorway sits below the window, both with timber lintels. A high, double-width doorway with a timber lintel is positioned opposite. Square ventilation holes are present in the side walls, and owl holes are located near the apexes of the gable ends. The gables are flat and have roll-cross saddles.
The stable block is a single-storey structure with a loft. The loose box has a single-width doorway, while the main stable section has a central single-width doorway within a dressed stone surround, flanked by two-light casements also with dressed stone surrounds. Square ventilation holes are located in the loft. Stone steps lead up to the left gable end to a plank door giving access to the loft.
Inside the barn are five bays with the original collar and tie beam trusses and double butt purlins. The interior of the granary has been plastered. The building occupies a prominent position on the brow of a hill, overlooking Little Rissington village.
Local climate
Bobble Barn and Adjoining Loose Box and Stables receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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