Cow House and Barn with Attached Horse Engine House North East of Crofters Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1978. Cow house and barn.
Cow House and Barn with Attached Horse Engine House North East of Crofters Public House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-bonework-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1978
- Type
- Cow house and barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 228 700
- Coordinates
- 54.12049, -3.18211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cow house and barn with an attached horse-engine house, located northeast of the Crofters Public House. It dates from the late 18th century to the early to mid-19th century and has been altered over time. The structure is built from yellow and red sandstone rubble, with slate and corrugated sheet roofs. It has an L-shaped design, featuring a two-storey barn with a lower cow house attached at right angles. The horse-engine house, which is one storey, is located at the north end of the barn, and there is a lean-to addition on the west side.
The barn, dating from the late 18th century, has a chamfered plinth, large quoins, slit vents, and square vent holes. The east side, which faces the yard, includes four doorways with basket arches made of alternating yellow and red voussoirs. The doorway on the right is at first-floor level and is above a horizontally-sliding door. The gabled end features an incomplete owl hole, indicating that the roof has been lowered. The cow house has its south side facing the yard and contains five doors and five windows, all with square heads and projecting sills. At the time of the survey, these were all boarded up, with the left door and window set within an infilled arch. There are also three incomplete ridge vents.
The horse-engine house is rectangular and has three segmentally-arched openings in its gabled north end. Inside, the cow house features pattern-book king-post trusses, while the horse-engine house has a massive king-post truss from which two parallel beams link to the barn. The barn roof has later iron trusses.
Local climate
Cow House and Barn with Attached Horse Engine House North East of Crofters Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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