Stables and Coach House at Rheola House is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 May 2011. Stable block, coach house.

Stables and Coach House at Rheola House

WRENN ID
blind-lancet-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 May 2011
Type
Stable block, coach house
Address
Stables and Coach House at Rheola House, Glynneath
OS grid reference
SN 841 041
Coordinates
51.72403, -3.67799
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The stables and coach house at Rheola House are a stable block and coach-house built from coursed squared stone, featuring dressed stone quoins and surrounds for the windows and doors. The building has small pane windows with curved heads, consisting of 15 panes on the ground floor and 10 panes on the first floor, both with glazed curved heads. It also has plank doors and a hipped slate roof.

The structure is arranged in a U-shape, with a two-storey stable wing to the west and a coach-house to the south, along with a later single-storey garage wing to the east, which encloses a courtyard. The stable wing has six bays, offset to the left, with two windows on either side of two ground floor doors. The north gable elevation features a single window on the ground floor to the left. The rear elevation has four windows on the ground floor and a wide doorway to the first floor, offset to the left. The coach-house wing consists of five bays, with four wide carriage entrances on the ground floor to the left, featuring double doors, a narrow door with a window above, and an additional window to the right. The rear elevation has four windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor.

The building has been partially converted, but the stable wing still retains its original stalls and loose boxes on the ground floor, supported by cast iron pillars, railings, and feed baskets. The internal timber floor structure has been replaced, and the coach-house wing has lost its original partitions and fittings.

Local climate

Stables and Coach House at Rheola House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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