Cow Byre Approximately 10 Metres South-East of West Calverts House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. Cow byre.

Cow Byre Approximately 10 Metres South-East of West Calverts House

WRENN ID
unlit-step-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cow byre
OS grid reference
SD 924 979
Coordinates
54.37738, -2.11703
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cow byre, located approximately 10 metres south-east of West Calverts House, dates back to 1695. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a stone slate roof and features two storeys with two first-floor windows. The building has a central board door and single-light chamfered windows. Notable architectural details include shaped kneelers and ashlar copings. There is a single-storey lean-to projection on the left and a pent-roofed single-storey lean-to projection on the right, which was formerly a pig-sty. The rear elevation includes a board door set in ashlar quoining with a chamfered surround, featuring "1695" on the lintel, and external steps leading to the hayloft. Inside, the original roof has a much steeper pitch, likely intended for thatch, and includes two moulded arch-braced collar-beam roof trusses with short crown-posts, a ridge plate, and butt purlins, along with one curved-principal rafter truss with a collar and trenched purlins. The original purpose of this building appears to have been neither domestic nor agricultural.

Local climate

Cow Byre Approximately 10 Metres South-East of West Calverts House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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