Sheep House at Tr 011 250 (Cold Harbour Farm) is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1985. Sheep house, looker's hut.
Sheep House at Tr 011 250 (Cold Harbour Farm)
- WRENN ID
- hidden-railing-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1985
- Type
- Sheep house, looker's hut
- Address
- Sheep House at Tr 011 250 (Cold Harbour Farm), Old Romney
- OS grid reference
- TR 011 250
- Coordinates
- 50.98925, 0.86486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sheep House, also known as the Looker's Hut, is located at Cold Harbour Farm and dates from around 1900. It is constructed of brick and features a corrugated iron roof with a rectangular shape and a hipped roof. The building has a projecting shouldered stack on the long east side and has blocked windows on the north and south sides. There is a boarded door on the east side. This structure was used by a shepherd or "looker" during lambing season. It is noted to be one of the largest remaining huts, with approximately 12 still in existence today, out of 356 recorded in 1870, according to E. Carpenter in "Romney Marsh Yesteryears," published in 1983.
Local climate
Sheep House at Tr 011 250 (Cold Harbour Farm) receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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