Cowhouse Approximately 5 Metres to South of Guilden Down Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985.
Cowhouse Approximately 5 Metres to South of Guilden Down Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lesser-plinth-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- OS grid reference
- SO 307 826
- Coordinates
- 52.43735, -3.01995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cowhouse located approximately 5 metres south of Guilden Down Farmhouse, likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble, with a timber frame at the rear that is clad in corrugated iron. It features a roof made of graded slate and corrugated iron. The cowhouse is one storey high with a loft and has a plinth. There are four boarded loft doors, a boarded door on the left side, an off-centre boarded door to the left, and three boarded two-leaf doors on the right side. Additionally, there are two tiers of vents on the right. This building is included for its group value with the nearby farmhouse.
Local climate
Cowhouse Approximately 5 Metres to South of Guilden Down Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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