Cattle Shelter Approximately 40 Metres North East of Morson Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Shelter.
Cattle Shelter Approximately 40 Metres North East of Morson Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-lantern-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shelter
- OS grid reference
- SX 458 904
- Coordinates
- 50.69284, -4.18377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cattle shelter located approximately 40 metres north-east of Morson Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. The structure features cob on stone rubble walls, which have been partially repaired with concrete blocks. It has a hipped roof made of corrugated iron. The building has an open-fronted design with a four-bay plan, divided at the front by monolithic granite posts, with sheets of corrugated iron infilling that were added in the 20th century. This cattle shelter is part of a very traditional and largely unaltered farm complex.
Local climate
Cattle Shelter Approximately 40 Metres North East of Morson Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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