The Stables, Water Tower, Garages and Allied Outbuildings North East of Stowell Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Stables, water tower, garages, outbuildings.
The Stables, Water Tower, Garages and Allied Outbuildings North East of Stowell Hill House
- WRENN ID
- spare-lead-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Stables, water tower, garages, outbuildings
- Address
- The Stables, Water Tower, Garages and Allied Outbuildings North East of Stowell Hill House, Horsington
- OS grid reference
- ST 688 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00516, -2.44471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stables, Water Tower, garages, and allied outbuildings located northeast of Stowell Hill House were built in 1923-1924 by Sir Guy Dawber. Constructed from local stone rubble, the stables feature weatherboard cladding, while the water tower has plain clay tile hanging. Both structures have bonnet hipped roofs made of plain clay tiles and are arranged in an unsymmetrical 'U' shape. The stables include standard horse boxes on the west and north sides, with a return to the water tower at the center of the east wing, which stands approximately 15 meters high and has a near pyramidal roof. There are wooden stairs leading to a first-floor door on the west face, above which is a clock face, and a hipped dormer window on the south slope of the roof. Attached to the south end of the east wing is a garage block consisting of three units. To the east, there is a parallel range with a half hipped roof made of timber, along with some later concrete blockwork (which is not included in the listing). At the south end, there is a notable wrought iron garden gate featuring repousse work. This group of outbuildings is part of a carefully designed and detailed estate.
Local climate
The Stables, Water Tower, Garages and Allied Outbuildings North East of Stowell Hill 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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