Spring Cottage and Attached Cow House is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Cottage, cowhouse.

Spring Cottage and Attached Cow House

WRENN ID
scattered-ember-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1986
Type
Cottage, cowhouse
Address
Spring Cottage and Attached Cow House, Cotton Lane
OS grid reference
SK 057 475
Coordinates
53.02537, -1.91533
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Spring Cottage and the attached cowhouse date from the 18th century. They are constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a plain tile roof featuring coped verges and brick integral end stacks. The buildings are aligned east-west and face south, with the cowhouse attached to the west end. The cottage, located to the right, is two storeys high and has two bays with two-light flat-face mullioned windows that are chamfered internally. There is a door to the right of the cottage. The cowhouse has a door to the right as well.

Local climate

Spring Cottage and Attached Cow House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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