Stables 15 Metres West of Maperton House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Stable block.

Stables 15 Metres West of Maperton House

WRENN ID
heavy-hinge-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Stable block
OS grid reference
ST 671 262
Coordinates
51.03443, -2.46968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stables located 15 metres west of Maperton House are a stable block that likely dates from around 1876. They are constructed from Cary stone that has been cut and squared, with ashlar dressings. The roof features plain clay tiles over stone slate base courses on the west side and Welsh slates on the east side, all set between coped gables.

The building is two storeys high with a seven-bay west elevation. Bays 2 and 6 have gabled windows topped with ball finials, while bays 3, 5, and 7 contain 4-pane sash windows framed by architraves. There is a moulded doorway with a flat hood above bay 2, and bay 3 features a semi-circular archway that is now blocked, replaced by an early 20th-century stone three-light window in the centre. Above this is a later gable with a leaded window.

At the centre of the roof, there is a clock tower designed in a 17th-century style, made of timber with a lead roof and an octagonal plan. It has diamond clock faces on the east and west sides beneath a bell-hip roof topped with a weathervane. The east side of the stables has some early 20th-century modifications, notably two open pitched-roof timber canopies in a 17th-century style. The stables are impressive on their own and significantly enhance the setting of Maperton House.

Local climate

Stables 15 Metres West of Maperton House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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