Barn and Cow House Attached to North West of Oldhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Barn, cow house.

Barn and Cow House Attached to North West of Oldhouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stony-spire-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1984
Type
Barn, cow house
OS grid reference
SO 315 337
Coordinates
51.99825, -2.9984
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn and cow house dating from the 17th or 18th century, located to the northwest of Oldhouse Farmhouse. It is constructed from dry stone rubble and features a roof made of stone slate and corrugated iron, which is hipped at the eastern return. The building has five bays that are oriented roughly north to south, with the cow house situated in the southern part near its junction with Oldhouse Farmhouse. There is a stable extension at the rear of the northern bay. The central bays have full-height ledged entrances, and there are three ledged doors providing access to the cow house from the south gable end. Inside, there are raking struts that support the cranked principal rafters.

Local climate

Barn and Cow House Attached to North West of Oldhouse Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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