Cattle Pens at Moss House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. Cattle pens, stable. 3 related planning applications.
Cattle Pens at Moss House
- WRENN ID
- last-steel-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cattle pens, stable
- Address
- Cattle Pens at Moss House, Spout Lane, Wennington, LA2 8NX
- OS grid reference
- SD 620 707
- Coordinates
- 54.13148, -2.58277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cattle pens at Moss House are an integrated cattle pens and stable that are part of a model farm, built in 1845 by W.A.F. Saunders of Wennington Hall. The structure is made of local coursed watershot freestone and blue Ulverston slate. It consists of three single-storeyed ranges arranged in a U-plan around a former manure depot, which has since been replaced. The western range accommodated heifers, while milkers and calves were housed to the north, and yearlings and horses were located to the east. The high set openings on the outer elevations are largely intact, and the windows and doorways on the inner elevations have only undergone minor alterations. Some stalls in the stable still survive, although they are very decayed. This building serves as the livestock area and is associated with the mechanised range to the north.
Local climate
Cattle Pens at Moss House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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