Bull Pen Approximately 60 Metres North of the Ashes is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Bull pen.
Bull Pen Approximately 60 Metres North of the Ashes
- WRENN ID
- pitched-keystone-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Bull pen
- OS grid reference
- SJ 931 545
- Coordinates
- 53.08798, -2.10326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bull pen, located approximately 60 meters north of The Ashes, is a 17th-century structure with minor alterations from the mid-19th century. It is built from coursed squared and dressed stone and features a tiled roof with verge parapets supported by corbelled kneelers. This small, single-storey building has a gabled roof and a boarded door situated in the center of the south side. The stone block-pitching and coursing are characteristic of 17th-century construction. The bull pen is part of a complete 17th-century farm group.
Local climate
Bull Pen Approximately 60 Metres North of the Ashes receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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