Barn and Cow Shed Approximately 40 Metres to North-East of Lower Down Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Barn, cow shed.
Barn and Cow Shed Approximately 40 Metres to North-East of Lower Down Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-transept-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Barn, cow shed
- OS grid reference
- SO 337 847
- Coordinates
- 52.45661, -2.97567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn and cow shed located approximately 40 metres to the north-east of Lower Down Farmhouse. It dates from the late 17th century and the 19th century. The structure features a weatherboarded timber frame with a coursed limestone rubble plinth and a slate roof. The framing consists of square panels and transverse partition walls with tension braces, and it has eight framed bays across two storeys. On the north side, there are six boarded doors on the left and four boarded doors on the ground floor, along with a loft door in the right-hand gable end. Inside, there is a partially inserted 19th-century floor, and the roof has double purlins with queen post and queen strut trusses.
Local climate
Barn and Cow Shed Approximately 40 Metres to North-East of Lower Down Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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