Stable Block East of Lowther Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. A C19 Stable block, coach house.
Stable Block East of Lowther Castle
- WRENN ID
- dim-bracket-falcon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Stable block, coach house
- Address
- Stable Block East of Lowther Castle, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 522 238
- Coordinates
- 54.60733, -2.74002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block east of Lowther Castle is a Grade II* listed building constructed between 1806 and 1809 by Sir Robert Smirke for the 1st Earl of Lonsdale. It is made of calciferous sandstone ashlar and features string courses and battlemented parapets. The roofs are made of graduated greenslate and are partly hipped. The buildings form three sides of a courtyard.
The rear coach house is two stories high and has seven bays, with ground-floor segmental arches beneath two-light stone-mullioned windows that have hoodmoulds. A battlemented parapet rises in the center, featuring a clock face and the Lowther arms. To the right, there is a single-storey, four-bay quadrant link, while to the left is a similar two-storey link with a central segmental arch and sash windows under hoodmoulds.
The left side features a two-storey, nine-bay stable with seven recessed bays and flanking rectangular battlemented turrets. It also has a central segmental arch and sash windows under hoodmoulds, with rounded-arched windows in the turrets. The right domestic/stable range mirrors the left but includes angle turrets on projecting bays, with the right turret forming part of the return wall of the castle facade.
Historical records from the Household Accounts of the Earl of Lonsdale in the County Record Office, Carlisle, indicate a payment made on June 30, 1806, to William Bayles & Co for the removal of earth in preparation for the foundations of the new stables and coach houses. The stable block is graded for its group value with Lowther Castle.
Local climate
Stable Block East of Lowther Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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