Above Beck and Barn Adjoining to West is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. House.

Above Beck and Barn Adjoining to West

WRENN ID
open-chapel-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1986
Type
House
OS grid reference
SD 608 671
Coordinates
54.09847, -2.60032
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Above Beck is a 17th-century house that has been altered, with a later barn adjoining to the west. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The original layout was an end baffle-entry plan, and the building has two storeys. The left side of the facade projects forward. On the ground floor, there is a two-light window with a plain stone surround and a flat-faced mullion. The first floor has two windows with plain reveals, with the right-hand window being larger.

To the right, there is a wide single-storey gabled porch that intersects with a window featuring an architrave, leaving one light to its left, which is a sashed window with glazing bars. The porch itself has a door with plain reveals and features a carved head and shoulders of a man at the apex of its roof, likely re-set from another location, though its origin is unknown. Next to the porch is a later bay with windows that have plain reveals, the ground-floor window having a concrete lintel and sill. Further to the right is a wide barn entrance with a segmental arch that has tooling typical of the early 19th century. There is also a window and a door on the right, both with plain reveals. A chimney is aligned with the right-hand side of the porch.

Inside, the room accessed from the front door includes a chamfered firehood bressumer with a spear, two chamfered axial main joists, and an 18th-century spice cupboard door with two raised and fielded panels. The barn features hardwood trusses with tie beams and collars.

Local climate

Above Beck and Barn 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Beck Farmhouse Grade II 17 m
  2. Wray Bridge Grade II 441 m
  3. Holme Cottages Grade II 457 m
  4. Bridge End House Grade II 482 m
  5. Burnside Grade II 494 m
  6. Bridge End Cottage Grade II 497 m
  7. Home Farm Cottage Home Farmhouse Grade II 512 m
  8. Holme View Grade II 537 m
  9. Roeburnside Grade II 547 m
  10. 94, Main Street Grade II 562 m