Cowhouse Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1987. Cowhouse.

Cowhouse Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Abbey Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sharp-buttress-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rotherham
Constituency
Rother Valley MP: Jake Richards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 April 1987
Type
Cowhouse
OS grid reference
SK 542 899
Coordinates
53.40388, -1.185
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a cowhouse with a hayloft and dovecote, dating from around 1800. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone and has a pantile roof. The structure is two storeys high and features a layout of two bays on either side of a central bay, which breaks forward. The central bay includes a wide, rusticated round-arched entrance. The outer bays have doors with overlights set in rock-faced surrounds, while the second and fourth bays contain slated casements also framed by similar rock-faced surrounds. A rock-faced sill band connects the first-floor openings, which feature slatted casements in rock-faced surrounds, although some windows are blocked. The central bay is topped with a pediment that has an oculus in the tympanum. Inside, a central arch leads to doorways for the cowhouse on both sides and to stone steps that ascend to the first-floor haylofts. The interior includes pattern-book king-post trusses supported by heavy scantling tie beams. Partition walls flank the central bay, and the attic space behind the pediment serves as a dovecote lined with wooden and plaster nesting holes.

Local climate

Cowhouse Approximately 40 Metres to South West of Abbey Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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