Corehouse Stable Court Including Gatepiers And Boundary Wall is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 2010. Stable.
Corehouse Stable Court Including Gatepiers And Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- secret-wicket-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 2010
- Type
- Stable
- OS grid reference
- NS 879 413
- Coordinates
- 55.65268, -3.78258
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Corehouse Stable Court, built around 1827-1830, is a single-storey, U-shaped Tudor revival structure that once served as stable offices. It consists of three main gabled blocks, with a courtyard enclosed by a wall featuring central gates that connect to the gable ends of the western and eastern blocks. At the rear, a short section of wall includes a pedestrian gate leading to the former laundry court. The building is constructed of squared, coursed sandstone, accented with raised polished ashlar dressings and stugged ashlar tabs, and features long and short quoins. The doors and windows have chamfered margins, with some being tabbed, and certain windows include stone mullions.
The western block has windows on the northern gable and features alternately placed timber-boarded doors and mullioned windows across four bays on the courtyard elevation. Above the central door, there is a gabled hayloft dormer topped with a ball finial. The southern gable has a piend-roofed single-storey outshot. The southern block includes a vehicle shed with two timber-boarded doors. The eastern block mirrors the western block's arrangement in the gable and courtyard elevations but has carriage doors facing the courtyard. There are also fragmentary remains of a former riding school located to the west of the courtyard.
The windows feature small-pane glazing in timber casements for the mullioned windows, while the other windows predominantly have four-pane glazing in timber sash and case styles. The building has ridge stacks with yellow clay cans, saddle-back skews, kneelered skewputts, and ball finials. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and has zinc ridges. The courtyard is paved with cobbles that slope towards a central drain.
The walls surrounding the property are made of roughly coursed rubble and topped with roll top saddle-back copes. The square-section gatepiers are constructed from stugged ashlar and feature cornices, moulded capstones, and ball finials.
Local climate
Corehouse Stable Court Including Gatepiers And Boundary Wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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