Cow House Including Surrounding Retaining Walls About 500 Metres South East of Caerhays Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1988. Cow house.
Cow House Including Surrounding Retaining Walls About 500 Metres South East of Caerhays Castle
- WRENN ID
- broken-cloister-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1988
- Type
- Cow house
- Address
- Cow House Including Surrounding Retaining Walls About 500 Metres South East of Caerhays Castle, PL26 6LY
- OS grid reference
- SW 973 415
- Coordinates
- 50.2389, -4.84378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cow house, located about 500 metres south-east of Caerhays Castle, dates from the 19th century and is likely used for housing cattle. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a tiled conical roof. The building has a circular plan and includes two doorways with timber lintels, but no windows.
The cow house is set in an excavated circular hollow, surrounded by stone rubble retaining walls, which likely serve to blend the structure into the landscape park. Inside, the roof is supported by a central wooden post, and there is a wooden manger present. Although the gardens surrounding the cow house are primarily from the later 19th century, the park may date back to the time of Caerhays Castle, as it is suggested that the landscape designer Humphry Repton may have been consulted on its design.
Local climate
Cow House Including Surrounding Retaining Walls About 500 Metres South East of Caerhays Castle receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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