Church Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Farmhouse, cowhouse. 1 related planning application.

Church Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse

WRENN ID
guardian-terrace-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1967
Type
Farmhouse, cowhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse, Waterhouses, ST10 3EJ
OS grid reference
SK 078 495
Coordinates
53.04279, -1.88438
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse and the attached cowhouse date from the 18th century and serve as a farmhouse, agricultural worker's cottage, and cowhouse. The building is constructed from coursed and square rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a plain tile roof featuring coped verges and brick ridge stacks. It is oriented north-east to south-west, with the cowhouse attached to the south-west and the agricultural worker's cottage to the north-east.

The structure has two storeys and coved eaves, with the central farmhouse flanked by the cowhouse on the left, which is under the same roofline, and the slightly lower agricultural worker's cottage on the right. The farmhouse has three bays with flat-faced mullioned windows; the outer windows have three lights, while the center window has two lights. There is a central glazed door with a cyma recta moulded dripstone and an inserted glazed door to the right. The agricultural worker's cottage features one bay with a two-light flat-faced mullioned window on the first floor and a casement window on the ground floor right, within an earlier surround, along with a blocked doorway. The cowhouse consists of three bays, with blocked doorways to the right and center that have inserted windows, a casement window on the first floor center, and a single-storey gabled extension to the left.

Inside, there is a ceiling beam with astragal mouldings, a Victorian staircase with turned balusters, and windows that have segmental rere arches and chamfered mullions.

Local climate

Church Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse 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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