Cowhouse Approximately 410 Metres South of Rousham Park is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. A C18 Cowhouse.
Cowhouse Approximately 410 Metres South of Rousham Park
- WRENN ID
- tenth-mortar-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Cowhouse
- OS grid reference
- SP 478 238
- Coordinates
- 51.91071, -1.30552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cowhouse, located approximately 410 metres south of Rousham Park, was built around 1733-1740 by William Kent. It features coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a gabled stone slate roof, with concrete tiles on the rear. The structure includes stone coping with onion finials on the left side. It has a two-unit plan and is a single storey. The front has a semi-circular archway at the centre, with a round window above it in the left gable. There is a timber lintel over the doorway with brick quoins at the rear. To the right gable, there is a gabled projection with a segmental-arched entry and a stone-coped gable topped with a ball finial. This cowhouse is significant as an early example of the "ferme ornee". Rousham Park is also listed in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
Cowhouse Approximately 410 Metres South of Rousham Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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