Cow house, calf house and walled yard, 15m south-west of Selworthy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 2021. Cow house, calf house, stable.
Cow house, calf house and walled yard, 15m south-west of Selworthy Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-soffit-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 2021
- Type
- Cow house, calf house, stable
- Address
- Cow house, calf house and walled yard, 15m south-west of Selworthy Farmhouse, Selworthy Farm, Porlock, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 8TL
- OS grid reference
- SS 916 466
- Coordinates
- 51.20905, -3.55205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cow house, later adapted as stables, with a late 19th/early 20th-century calf house attached. The buildings are located 15 metres south-west of Selworthy Farmhouse.
The buildings are constructed of random sandstone rubble, some cob, and brick, with pitched and monopitched double roman tiled roofs. The cow house and stables are arranged as a rectangular building of four bays, with a hayloft over the cow house, and a calf pen structure built against the west gable wall. The calf house extends northwards slightly against the west gable of the cow house.
The south-facing front has two doorways set within altered openings; a wide ledge and braced plank door to the right and a full-height opening with plank doors and inserted lights to the left. A two-light window is set into a splayed opening at the left end, and a small fixed light sits below the eaves. The east gable has a timber window with wooden ventilation slats and two infill openings are present on the north side. The calf house has a boarded opening high in its south elevation, and its west elevation features vertical wooden planks and two ledged and braced doors.
Inside, a stone partition wall divides the ground floor, extending upwards as a boarded wooden screen with a plank door. The right-hand half is open to the roof, with a diamond-patterned brick floor and wooden stall divisions. The other half has cement render to the lower walls, a cement floor, and no fittings. The first floor has roughly-shaped axial beams and joists supporting wide floorboards. The roof features pegged collared principal trusses and purlins – the north purlin in the east half is original, while the others are later replacements, as is the ridge piece. The calf house is divided into two pens by a timber partition and each contains a wooden hayrack.
A small walled yard with a cobbled floor is adjacent to the calf house and bounded to the north and south by stone rubble walls with cock and hen capping, each containing a narrow gateway.
Local climate
Cow house, calf house and walled yard, 15m south-west of Selworthy Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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