Stable Building to South East of Holker Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. Stable building, cafe, flats. 1 related planning application.

Stable Building to South East of Holker Hall

WRENN ID
crumbling-tin-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1989
Type
Stable building, cafe, flats
Address
Stable Building to South East of Holker Hall, B5278, Lower Holker, LA11 7PL
OS grid reference
SD 359 773
Coordinates
54.18798, -2.98262
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stable building located to the south-east of Holker Hall, dated 1864, is now used as a café and flats. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. The building has a U-shaped plan, with a two-storey, five-bay south-west facade and lower wings that are two storeys high with three bays. The left wing includes a single-storey bay extension.

The windows and entrance have chamfered reveals, with ground floor windows featuring flat relieving arches and cross-casements. The first floor has a central window beneath a gablet adorned with decorative bargeboards and finials, as well as a three-light casement where the central light is elevated. The first and fifth bays have small-paned casements under gablets similar to the central bay, while the other bays contain small boarded windows. There are three entrances with boarded doors and large overlights.

A central open timber bell turret with a pyramidal roof, a four-faced clock, and a weather vane is a notable feature. The wings mirror the main facade, with small-paned casements on the first floor and segmental-headed coach house doors—three on the left wing, now fitted with 20th-century glazing, and one on the right wing. The gable ends have segmental-headed windows on the first floor, with the right side featuring two mullions. Some gable-end stacks are present, and the outer right return has an external stair leading to a first-floor entrance.

On the north-east facade, there are three loading doors with gablets, the central one having an external stair and a datestone above it. A single-storey range of loose boxes is located at the rear.

Local climate

Stable Building to South East of Holker Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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