Stables House and Garden Wall Immediately to North East of Whelprigg is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1989. Stables, house.
Stables House and Garden Wall Immediately to North East of Whelprigg
- WRENN ID
- tired-banister-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1989
- Type
- Stables, house
- Address
- Stables House and Garden Wall Immediately to North East of Whelprigg, Barbon, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 634 813
- Coordinates
- 54.22653, -2.56233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stables House and the garden wall immediately to the northeast of Whelprigg date from 1845. The building is constructed of dressed stone with some ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It is arranged in a U-shape with a garden to the west. The east range serves as the house and consists of seven bays, with the first and sixth bays gabled and the bay in the center breaking forward under a coped gable topped with a ball finial. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and horns. There is a 20th-century gabled timber porch on the third bay, a large entrance in the first bay, and two entrances in the fifth bay. The building has two cross-axial stacks and an additional cross-axial stack in the wing.
The south gable end features a tall window with a transom, a label mould, and small-paned glazing. The west elevation has sashed windows and three entrances at the left-hand end. The north range, which is part of the stables, includes a large opening that is now blocked and has a label mould. The west range of the stables has a large opening to the east with timber infill and large doors, a stable entrance with an overlight, flanking windows with small-paned glazing, and a pitching hole under a gablet, all with label moulds, as well as an elliptical-headed entrance. The south gable end of this range also has a ball finial.
The walls and large gate piers between the south gable ends flank a large entrance that features an iron overthrow for a lantern. The west elevation is mostly blind except for two inserted windows. Three gabled elements break forward, with ball finials on the outer gables and a spike finial, likely a weather vane, on the central gable. The garden wall has a flat ashlar coping, and the canted south-west angle has a lower wall that ramps up to the ends. The west entrance features a triangular head in splayed reveals with a label mould and a wrought-iron gate, with the wall ramped up above.
Local climate
Stables House and Garden Wall Immediately to North East of Whelprigg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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