Cowhouse and Piggery to East of Cowley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1982. Farm outbuilding.
Cowhouse and Piggery to East of Cowley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-oriel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1982
- Type
- Farm outbuilding
- Address
- Cowhouse and Piggery to East of Cowley Cottage, Lea Main Road, Lea, Matlock, Dethick, Lea and Holloway
- OS grid reference
- SK 331 574
- Coordinates
- 53.11343, -1.50565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cowhouse and piggery located to the east of Cowley Cottage is a farm outbuilding dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from regularly coursed gritstone and features coped gables on both the north and south sides, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has an "L" shaped layout that faces Cowley Cottage and includes five doorways, each with heavy lintels, quoined surrounds, and planked doors. Four of these openings have stable doors. There are also doors for an overloft, which are fitted with plain boarded shutters. The south gable includes feeding troughs and piggery doors on the ground floor. This structure is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Cowhouse and Piggery to East of Cowley Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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