Gad House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Cattle shelter.
Gad House
- WRENN ID
- cold-gable-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- Cattle shelter
- Address
- Gad House, Over Wyresdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 563 548
- Coordinates
- 53.98805, -2.66658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gad House is a 19th-century cattle shelter located in Over Wyresdale. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building is single storey and open at the front, supported by five cylindrical rubble pillars. A later dividing wall has created a separate compartment within the left-hand opening.
Local climate
Gad House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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