Barn and Cowhouse Approximately 25 Metres to North East of Upper Spoad Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Barn, cowhouse.
Barn and Cowhouse Approximately 25 Metres to North East of Upper Spoad Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-plinth-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Barn, cowhouse
- OS grid reference
- SO 249 817
- Coordinates
- 52.4282, -3.1054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn dating from the late 17th century, located approximately 25 metres to the north-east of Upper Spoad Farmhouse. It features a weatherboarded timber frame set on a high coursed limestone rubble plinth, with a corrugated iron roof. The barn has four framed bays and is oriented from north-west to south-east, with the site sloping down to the south-east.
The framing consists of square panels, with three panels extending up to the wall plate. On the south-west front, there are stone steps leading up to a boarded door on the left, two pitching openings on the right, and one in the right-hand gable end. To the right, there are two boarded byre doors set into the high plinth and a window to the left.
Inside, the barn features two pairs of purlins and tie-beam trusses with raking queen struts, with bay divisions supported by long tension braces. Upper Spoad Farmhouse is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Barn and Cowhouse Approximately 25 Metres to North East of Upper Spoad Farmhouse receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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