Cowshed at Church Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Cowshed. 2 related planning applications.
Cowshed at Church Farm
- WRENN ID
- quiet-chamber-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Cowshed
- Address
- Cowshed at Church Farm, Church Lane, Wingfield
- OS grid reference
- ST 825 568
- Coordinates
- 51.31014, -2.25173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cowshed at Church Farm is a 17th-century structure built from rubble stone with a concrete tiled roof. It features seven bays. The gable end facing south has a central doorway flanked by two-light ovolo-mullioned casements with hoodmoulds on either side, a smaller single-light window above, and a gable that includes a symmetrical arrangement of pigeon holes for a dovecote. The east side has open doorways and a two-light ovolo-mullioned wooden window, while the west side contains small windows. Inside, the cowshed has a seven-bay roof supported by collar and tie-beam trusses, with two tiers of through purlins and some curved wind bracing.
Local climate
Cowshed at Church Farm receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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