Calf House Approximately 5 Metres South of Preston Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Calf house.
Calf House Approximately 5 Metres South of Preston Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-lintel-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Calf house
- OS grid reference
- SX 749 903
- Coordinates
- 50.69931, -3.77172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The calf house, possibly originally a cider house, is located approximately 5 meters south of Preston Farmhouse. It likely dates from the 18th century and was converted into a garage in the 20th century. The building features plastered cob on stone rubble footings and has a slate roof, which may have originally been thatch.
The structure has a two-room plan and faces the farmhouse to the north, built into the hillslope. The larger room is on the left (uphill) end, terraced into the slope, and includes a first-floor loading hatch doorway in the end wall, accessible by a low flight of steps. The front of this room has a ground floor doorway with a small shuttered window to the left above it. The right room features a 20th-century garage door set within a contemporary porch that projects slightly from the main block. There is a series of pigeon holes under the eaves along the front and left ends of the building. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. The interior has not been inspected. This calf house or cider house is part of a group with the nearby Preston Farmhouse.
Local climate
Calf House Approximately 5 Metres South of Preston Farmhouse receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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