Welby Crag Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Welby Crag Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-gutter-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Welby Crag Farmhouse, Ellel, LA2 0QB
- OS grid reference
- SD 515 567
- Coordinates
- 54.00407, -2.74123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Welby Crag Farmhouse is a house from the late 17th century that has been altered. It is built from sandstone rubble and has a slate roof. Originally designed with an end-lobby entry plan, it has been modified to feature a central entry. The house has two storeys and two bays. The windows have rebated and chamfered surrounds, except for the modern window on the ground floor of the left-hand bay, which has plain reveals and a modern door to its left. The door between the bays has a chamfered surround and a battlemented lintel with a re-cut inscription that reads 'WM 1751'. The former position of the doorway is still visible in the stonework on the right side of the facade. A modern single-storey glazed porch covers part of the facade. There are end chimneys. Inside, the house features chamfered main beams, including one near the right-hand gable wall that was likely a firehood bressummer. The current fireplace is shouldered and of 18th-century style.
Local climate
Welby Crag Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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