Calf Pens Directly to North-West of the Infirmary is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Cattle shelter.
Calf Pens Directly to North-West of the Infirmary
- WRENN ID
- sombre-floor-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Cattle shelter
- Address
- Calf Pens Directly to North-West of the Infirmary, Buckland Monachorum
- OS grid reference
- SX 488 668
- Coordinates
- 50.48159, -4.13245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The calf pens, originally a cattle shelter, date from around the mid-19th century but likely include some medieval walling. They feature stone rubble walls, with the tall rear wall exhibiting a pronounced batter. The building has a gable-ended slate roof and consists of a row of loose boxes arranged around three sides of a courtyard; these may have originally been open-fronted for use as a cattle shelter. The battered rear wall appears much older and was probably integrated into the 19th-century structure. It is a single-storey building with an irregular front that includes ten doorways and intermediate windows around the courtyard. At the rear, the ground drops significantly, and the tall battered wall has two buttresses; one is simply constructed of rubble, while the other is made of granite ashlar, similar to the materials used in the infirmary and the tithe barn nearby.
Local climate
Calf Pens Directly to North-West of the Infirmary sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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