Coach Houses and Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. Commercial, residential.
Coach Houses and Stables
- WRENN ID
- rusted-plinth-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Commercial, residential
- Address
- Coach Houses and Stables, Owlpen
- OS grid reference
- ST 807 981
- Coordinates
- 51.68151, -2.27914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of former coach houses and stables, now converted into two houses, along with a cart shed range. It dates from the mid-19th century and is constructed of coursed and dressed limestone, featuring ashlar chimneys and a Welsh slate roof. The two-storey coach house forms the north side of a courtyard and is connected to the stables on the east side by a gateway, with the cart shed range located on the south side.
The coach house has a large, off-centre round archway with a full gable above, and a mullioned and transomed casement window situated above the archway. To the left, there are three half gables with stone mullioned cross windows, and below these, there are mullioned and transomed casements flanking a segmental arched doorway. There is also a dormer at eaves level to the right, which has a hipped roof. The building features tall eaves-mounted chimneys.
At the northeast corner of the yard, there is a gatehouse set at a 45-degree angle, which has a large pointed archway and a round arched window arcade above. The gatehouse is adorned with crenellated parapets and has two flanking turrets, one of which has an octagonal top that previously supported a domed cupola, now removed.
The stable range includes a loft in the central section, with symmetrical mullioned and transomed windows on either side of a central segmental arched doorway, and a similar loft doorway above in a hipped half-dormer. The north-facing cart shed range features pointed arched doorways. The interiors have not been inspected. This building is noted for being an unusually good example of a coach house and stable range, originally built to serve the nearby Owlpen House, which was demolished in 1955 after a fire.
Local climate
Coach Houses and Stables receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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