Foss Bank Farmhouse and Farm Buildings Adjoining to West is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. Farmhouse.
Foss Bank Farmhouse and Farm Buildings Adjoining to West
- WRENN ID
- lost-bonework-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SD 660 653
- Coordinates
- 54.08314, -2.52008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foss Bank Farmhouse is a mid-18th century house with a 17th century building to the west, now used as a farm building. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and has a stone slate roof. The house has two storeys and three bays. The windows feature flat-faced mullions and plain stone surrounds, with three lights in most windows, except for the left-hand ground floor window which has four lights and the central first-floor window which has two lights. The central bay contains a door with a plain stone surround, and there is a blocked doorway to the right of the door. The house has gable chimneys.
To the left, set back, is part of the 17th century building, which has two 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows under a single hood on the ground floor and one similar window above. Further left is a former house, likely from the early 17th century, which originally had a steeper roof pitch. Its front wall now features a wide entrance with plain reveals and a concrete lintel, and its windows are blocked. To the right of this entrance is a window with a rebated and chamfered surround, and to the left is a similar 2-light window with a hood. Above it is a one-light chamfered window with a segmental head. The left gable wall has a chimney stack supported by corbels at the first-floor level, with blocked windows to its right, including a one-light window with a chamfer on the ground floor and a two-light window with rebate and chamfer above.
The rear wall has a one-light rebated and chamfered window on the first floor towards the left, and further right is a door with plain reveals. A dog-leg in a straight joint near this point indicates a history of rebuilding and alterations to the roof pitch. Further right, there is a blocked doorway with long-and-short jambs, a chamfered one-light window with a segmental head, and another blocked window. On the first floor, there are two pitching holes with re-used 17th century dressings. Inside, there is a modern first floor that is higher than the original. The roof trusses and fireplace were not accessible during the survey.
Local climate
Foss Bank Farmhouse and Farm Buildings Adjoining to West sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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