Barn, Cowhouse and Stable, Whitehall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Farm buildings. 1 related planning application.
Barn, Cowhouse and Stable, Whitehall Farm
- WRENN ID
- eternal-ember-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Address
- Barn, Cowhouse and Stable, Whitehall Farm, Whitehall Lane, Rudford and Highleadon, GL2 8ED
- OS grid reference
- SO 768 212
- Coordinates
- 51.88909, -2.33763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn, cowhouse, and stable complex, dating to the third quarter of the 19th century, built for the Price estate. The stable and pigsty are constructed of English bond brickwork, while the barn is largely weatherboarded with a red-brick plinth and blue brick capping, painted black, with white painted door frames, windows, louvres, and bargeboards. The roof is tiled.
The building is arranged in an L-shape, with a barn incorporating a porch on one side, a six-bay cowhouse at right angles, and a three-bay stable on the end, the latter being lofted. The facades face a courtyard. The stable includes a boarded stable door with a four-pane fanlight above a low, pointed blue brick arch with a stone keystone. Either side of the door is a window with a stone sill, featuring three glazed panes below and louvres above, all framed by an arch similar to the door's. A gabled brick dormer is positioned centrally above, with a two-light casement window and decorative fretwork bargeboards and a timber finial. Similar bargeboards adorn the gables. A door on the return side provides access to the first floor, likely originally a granary. An original brick causeway extends in front of the stable and around two sides of the yard.
The cowhouse is slightly set back and includes a short brick section with a boarded door on the left, the remainder weatherboarded. It features a single boarded door, a casement window, and a double boarded door. Two large, triangular louvred vents are located at the ridge, with plain bargeboards. The interior originally had an open front with timber posts carrying a wallplate. A brick-paved floor and a stone-edged drainage channel are present in one bay between the barn and porch. The rear wall was removed when the cowhouse was enlarged; notable features include king-post trusses with an iron bolt, a single pair of purlins, and a plank ridge.
The barn has double, boarded doors in two sections, leading to the porch, which has a boarded gable, decorative bargeboards, an iron finial, and a weathervane. A lean-to section with a catslide roof adjoins the barn, containing two looseboxes, each with a square window on the left with adjustable louvres and an original iron mechanism; a boarded door is on the right. The gable features decorative bargeboards, a timber finial, and a large, triangular vent with curved louvres. A lean-to pigsty is against the gable of the barn, incorporating a boarded door with an arch similar to that of the stable, and a wavy bargeboard above. Two low openings on the side have heads matching the door. The yard is enclosed by timber paling, a gate, and a stone trough. At the end is a gabled section with a door and bargeboards mirroring those of the pigsty, and three harness hooks inside.
Inside the barn, a five-bay space is characterized by long braces in the balloon wall framing and inserted lofts. The main posts lack jowls, with curved braces connecting the tie beams of queen post trusses. A king post truss is present in the porch. The listing describes the complex as a very complete and well-preserved farmstead, representing the best surviving example among those in Rudford, Tibberton, and Taynton that were altered or rebuilt by the Price estate.
Local climate
Barn, Cowhouse and Stable, Whitehall Farm receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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