Cow House Approximately 25 Metres To North West Of Acorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Cow house.

Cow House Approximately 25 Metres To North West Of Acorn Cottage

WRENN ID
worn-passage-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Staffordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
Cow house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ 80 NW TONG C.P. OFFOXEY ROAD, Bishop's Wood (North side)

7/2 Cow House approximately - 25 metres to North-West of Acorn Cottage.

GV II

Cow House. Circa 1818. Coursed rubble with gault and grey brick window details,and old tile roof. Gothic style. 1 storey. Coped battlemented parapeted gable ends. 2 straight-sided arched windows with crude brick tracery flanking central blocked entrance with lintel and open straight- sided arched tympanum; inserted boarded door to right partly destroying the right-hand window. End elevations have large straight-sided arched blind windows with Y-traceried brick panels. Stone plaque to South inscribed: "RANDZ de VACHE". This is one of a series of eccentric outbuildings erected on the Tong Estate by George Durant the younger. Acorn Cottage to South (not listed) is dated 1818. (qv. Pig Sty to North of Acorn Cottage, fowl house to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse, kennels to East of the Red House, etc.). G. Griffith, History of Tong and Boscobel, 1894, pp. 154-61; D. H. Robinson, The Wandering Worfe, Waine Research Publications, p.60.

Listing NGR: SJ8355809278

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