Barn and attached cow house approximately 35 metres to north of Lower House and Lower House Cottage (Former Lower House Farmhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1980. Barn, cow house.

Barn and attached cow house approximately 35 metres to north of Lower House and Lower House Cottage (Former Lower House Farmhouse)

WRENN ID
frozen-cellar-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1980
Type
Barn, cow house
Address
Barn and attached cow house approximately 35 metres to north of Lower House and Lower House Cottage (Former Lower House Farmhouse), SY5 9DF
OS grid reference
SJ 357 094
Coordinates
52.67851, -2.95202
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a former barn and attached cow house, located approximately 35 metres north of Lower House and Lower House Cottage, which was formerly known as Lower House Farmhouse. It likely dates from the mid to late 18th century. The structure features a weatherboarded and corrugated-iron-clad timber frame set on a high 20th-century red brick plinth, topped with a corrugated-iron roof. It consists of three framed bays.

The framing includes widely spaced studs with long straight tension braces. On the west front, there is a central 20th-century casement window and an unglazed opening slightly off-centre to the right, accompanied by a pair of flanking two-leaf boarded doors. The cow house to the right is constructed of coursed yellow sandstone rubble with brick dressings and has a slate roof. It is two storeys high, featuring a toothed brick eaves cornice, a small loft window to the right, and a boarded loft door that is off-centre to the left. There is also a ground floor window off-centre to the left and a pair of two-leaf boarded doors. The right-hand gable end contains a former dovecote with blocked entrances and ledges.

Inside the barn, there are tie-beam roof trusses with raking struts, single staggered purlins, and cross frames with central posts, along with evidence of former angle and tension braces. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Barn and attached cow house approximately 35 metres to north of Lower House and Lower House Cottage (Former Lower House Farmhouse) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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