Shepherd's Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. A 1705 Farmhouse.

Shepherd's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
strange-ashlar-peregrine
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1968
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Shepherd's Farmhouse, Cockerham
OS grid reference
SD 453 514
Coordinates
53.95666, -2.83398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shepherd's Farmhouse is a house built in 1705, featuring painted brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The building has a T-plan layout and stands two storeys tall with attics, comprising six bays and a plinth. The windows are of two lights, rebated and chamfered, with mullions. There is a continuous cyma-moulded drip course above the ground floor, and a brick string course above the first-floor windows. The front door is framed by an architrave with '17 TSE 05' inscribed on the frieze and topped with a cyma cornice. The gables are finished with copings and kneelers, and there are chimneys located between the first and second bays and on the right-hand gable. The right-hand gable wall features two attic windows with plain brick reveals, while the left-hand gable wall has a two-light mullioned attic window. The right-hand (east) wall of the rear wing includes a cross window that illuminates the stair. Inside, there is an open-well stair with a closed string, square newels, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. In the attic above the front part of the house, there are two trusses with crucks that have been reused as principals.

Local climate

Shepherd's Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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