Pool Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1992. Barn, cowhouse.
Pool Corner
- WRENN ID
- silver-buttress-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1992
- Type
- Barn, cowhouse
- Address
- Pool Corner, Shoulton, Hallow, Worcester, WR2 6PX
- OS grid reference
- SO 811 586
- Coordinates
- 52.22617, -2.27681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pool Corner is a former barn and adjoining cowhouse, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with an extension for the cowhouse added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The structure features a weatherboarded timber frame, which has been partly reclad in corrugated steel sheets, with a sandstone and brick plinth. The cowhouse is constructed in a mixed garden wall bond and has a timber frame at the south end. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have gabled ends.
The barn has a three-bay plan, with a cart entrance located at the south side of the central bay and the cowhouse range extending at right angles to the north of the east bay, which was extended in the 19th century. The south front of the barn features a full-height cart entrance at the center, along with a small doorway on the north side, both of which have 20th-century doors. The south bays of the cowhouse are weatherboarded timber frame, with some upper panels containing wattle infill. The north extension of the cowhouse has a partly rebuilt west wall.
Inside, the barn has a three-bay frame with jowled storey posts, heavy studs, tension braces, and no midrail. The tie-beams are equipped with queen-struts and high collars that are morticed to the principal rafters, with trenched purlins and an intact diagonal ridgepiece. The common rafters and battens are also intact. The roof over the cowhouse features tall queen-posts that are supported on floor beams and tied to wall-plates, morticed to the principals, with collars above that include king-posts and trenched purlins.
Local climate
Pool Corner receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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