Blackwood House and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Farmhouse, barn.

Blackwood House and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
spare-dormer-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1967
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Blackwood House and Attached Barn, Horton
OS grid reference
SJ 927 571
Coordinates
53.11111, -2.10938
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blackwood House and the attached barn are a farmhouse and barn complex dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in 1850 and later. The buildings are constructed from coursed and squared rubble, topped with tiled roofs, and feature brick end stacks on the house. The layout is L-shaped, with the farm range to the west and the house to the east, connected by a carriage arch.

The house is two stories tall and has a two-window garden front. The first floor features three-light chamfered mullions, which are also repeated on the left side of the ground floor. The right-hand window has five lights with a king mullion arranged in a 2:3 light configuration. There is a 20th-century casement window on the extreme right and a door on the extreme left. The ground floor is partially obscured by a 20th-century lean-to.

The barn, also from the 17th century with 1850 alterations, has raised eaves but maintains a similar ridge height to the house. It has a short return attached to the left of the house, featuring giant vermiculated voussoirs above a flat-arched carriage entry. The long range of the barn runs north to south and consists of two levels with evenly spaced loft doors above three stables, each equipped with top-hung casements and boarded doors, one of which is now blocked. Both floors have butterfly-shaped vents. A date-stone on the rear of the barn features low-relief carving inscribed with "+ H.C. A.D. MDCCCL +".

Local climate

Blackwood House and Attached Barn 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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