Stable Block at Delapre Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1968. Stable block. 4 related planning applications.
Stable Block at Delapre Abbey
- WRENN ID
- broken-storey-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1968
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Stable Block at Delapre Abbey, Far Cotton and Delapre, NN4 8AW
- OS grid reference
- SP 759 591
- Coordinates
- 52.22505, -0.88945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century stable block located within the grounds of Delapre Abbey. The building is two storeys high and constructed of dressed ironstone. A string course runs below the first-floor windows, and a frieze and cornice extend to a parapet. The roof is slate, with lead ridges. A prominent hipped cupola sits centrally, topped with a clock beneath a segmental pediment. The cupola features engaged columns supporting an entablature that projects over the columns. Rectangular openings lead to the bell chamber, and the dome is crowned with a ball finial and a tall, scroll-pattern weather vane.
The central section of the stable block has three wide bays. The central bay features a large arched opening in a rusticated surround with a key block, now filled with a modern window, and a semicircular three-light window above. The flanking bays have four-pane sash windows; those on the ground floor are within rusticated surrounds, while the upper windows are recessed. Lower wings flank the central block, each also containing three bays.
Delapre Abbey, along with its stable block, billiard room, garden wall, gateway, game larder, coach house, and park house, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
Stable Block at Delapre Abbey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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