Cow House, Cow Shelter and Stables About 60 Yards North North East of Brook Farmhouse
COW HOUSE, COW SHELTER AND STABLES ABOUT 60 YARDS NORTH NORTH EAST OF BROOK FARMHOUSE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349106
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cow House, Cow Shelter and Stables About 60 Yards North North East of Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COW HOUSE, COW SHELTER AND STABLES ABOUT 60 YARDS NORTH NORTH EAST OF BROOK FARMHOUSE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-03-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06688/04
- Rights:
- © Mr Derek C. Harrison. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreAlso of interest
Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349106
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cow House, Cow Shelter and Stables About 60 Yards North North East of Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COW HOUSE, COW SHELTER AND STABLES ABOUT 60 YARDS NORTH NORTH EAST OF BROOK FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COW HOUSE, COW SHELTER AND STABLES ABOUT 60 YARDS NORTH NORTH EAST OF BROOK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Marcle
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 67177 36817
Details
LITTLE MARCLE CP - SO 63 NE
5/16 Cow house, cow shelter and stables about 60 yards north-north-east of Brook Farmhouse
GV II
Cow house, cow shelter and stables, forming north and east (entry) sides of farmyard complex. "A D 1866" in trefoiled tablet on central south-facing gable. Brick, tiled roofs with small gabled louvred vents at regular intervals along ridge. L-plan with cow house/cow shelter part aligned roughly east/west from its junction with hop kilns, hop rooms, cow shelter, cart shed and barn range (qv) to the west and stable part returning southwards to form one side of main entrance from road to farmyard. One storey. South elevation: advanced central gabled front with thermal window beneath tablet and central ledged door; to the left three openings to cow house with a ledged door to either side of the middle opening; to the right are five arched openings with 4-centred heads supported on brick piers forming the front of cow shelter. West elevation of stables return wing attached to cow shelter has a slatted opening to right of centre with three doors, two to the left of the opening and one to right; south gable of stables has thermal window to side of farmyard entrance. North elevation of east/west range has three gables one in the centre and one at each end, that to the right being the end of the hop kiln, hop room, cow shelter, cart shed and barn range (qv). Interior: trusses are mainly queen posts carrying angle struts to principals; cow house has feeding passage along rear wall with parallel free-standing continuous racks and troughs to the front of it; in the rear of the central gabled part is a sheep dip about four feet deep, reputed to be one of the first in Herefordshire to be designed into a farm building. Part of a model farmstead complex, adjoining Brook Farmhouse (qv), reputedly built by the Eastnor Estate. Included for group value as a complete example.
Listing NGR: SO6717736817
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 152681
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 16-Jun-2026 at 09:40:43.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.