Bell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Bell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silent-quartz-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bell Farmhouse, Caton Green Road, Caton-With-Littledale, LA2 9JG
- OS grid reference
- SD 553 652
- Coordinates
- 54.08095, -2.68421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Farmhouse is a house built in 1690, with alterations made over time. It features slobbered rubble construction and a slate roof, arranged in a 2-cell plan with a gable entry. The building stands two storeys tall. The windows are rebated and chamfered, originally designed as mullioned windows. On the south wall, there is a blocked 2-light fire window on the left, followed by two bays on the ground floor that have lost their mullions, while the first floor retains one mullion in each window. To the right, there is a gabled 20th-century conversion that matches the style of the house and reuses 18th-century mullioned windows. The west gable wall features a chamfered attic window and two redundant stone corbels. On the left side, there is a door with a moulded surround and a battlemented lintel that is inscribed with the date '1690' and some illegible initials. The north wall has a lean-to addition on the left that contains the current entrance, and to the right, there is a 3-light mullioned window. The first floor has similar windows arranged in a pattern of two, one, and two lights. Inside, the house has chamfered main ceiling joists, with one towards the west possibly having once served as a firehood bressummer.
Local climate
Bell Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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