Fowl House Approximately 10 Metres to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Fowl house.
Fowl House Approximately 10 Metres to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-hammer-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Fowl house
- OS grid reference
- SJ 783 075
- Coordinates
- 52.6654, -2.32227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fowl House, located approximately 10 metres to the west of Vauxhall Farmhouse, was built around 1842. It features a squared and coursed sandstone base with gault brick above, accented by grey brick dressings. The building is designed in a Neo-Egyptian style, with a square base topped by a tall pyramid. The base is coped and has a low entrance facing south. The pyramid has dentil brick string courses and diamond-shaped openings, topped with a stone obelisk finial that has oval side openings. Some bricks originally bore inscribed mottoes, including "LIVE AND LET LIVE," "SCRAT BEFORE YOU PECK," "TRIAL BY JURY," "TEACH YOUR GRANNY," "CAN YOU SMELL," "GIVE EVERY (DOG) HIS DUE (DAY?)," and "HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY." This Fowl House is part of a series of unique outbuildings constructed on the Tong Estate during the time of the Second George Durant, who died in 1844.
Local climate
Fowl House Approximately 10 Metres to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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