Cowhouses, granary and stable approximately 15 yards north of Fieldhead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1985. A 18th century Cowhouses, granary, stable.
Cowhouses, granary and stable approximately 15 yards north of Fieldhead Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-trefoil-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1985
- Type
- Cowhouses, granary, stable
- Period
- 18th century
- OS grid reference
- SK 086 382
- Coordinates
- 52.94156, -1.87206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of cowhouses, a granary, and a stable located approximately 15 yards north of Fieldhead Farmhouse. It dates from around 1700, with later alterations and additions. The structure is made of red brick and features clay tile roofs with coped verges, forming three sides of a courtyard.
The north range, built around 1700, is a five-bay cowhouse that includes a granary. It has a blocked carriage arch on the left, with an inserted segmental-headed boarded door, and segmental-headed doors to the right and to the left of the center. There is also a blocked segmental-headed door to the right of the center, along with top-opening windows to the right, right of center, and left of center. The walls, door arches, and jambs are decorated with flared headers. Tallet steps on the west gable lead up to the granary door.
The west range is a three-bay cowhouse featuring segmental-headed bottom-hung casements on the left and in the center, and a top-opening window on the right. It has segmental-headed boarded doors to the left of center and right of center, along with a dentilled eaves course. The two right-hand bays of this range have been rebuilt.
The east range is a single-storey stable with three bays, which includes boarded doors on the right, left, and center.
Inside the north range, there is an open timber roof supported by a tie beam with raking struts extending to the principals, single trenched purlins, a ridge piece, and wind braces.
Local climate
Cowhouses, granary and stable approximately 15 yards north of Fieldhead Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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