Cow House at Shirley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Cow house.
Cow House at Shirley Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-pavement-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Cow house
- Address
- Cow House at Shirley Hall, Derby Lane
- OS grid reference
- SK 221 418
- Coordinates
- 52.97319, -1.67233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cow house at Shirley Hall is a mid-19th century structure. It is built of red brick and features a tall plain tile roof. The building is single storey and has an unequal T-plan shape with a long top stroke. The west elevation displays an irregular arrangement of pairs and triplets of small Gothic windows, resembling the heads of lancets, all with painted chamfered surrounds. There are also segmental-arched doorways, which have painted chamfered surrounds and patterned brick arches, along with stable-type doors. This building is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Cow House at Shirley Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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