Browfoot Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Farmhouse.
Browfoot Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fading-newel-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Browfoot Farmhouse, Storrs Lane, the Yealands
- OS grid reference
- SD 493 759
- Coordinates
- 54.17646, -2.77757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Browfoot Farmhouse is a house that possibly dates from the late 18th century, with some remains from the 17th century and later alterations from the 19th century. It is constructed of rubble and has a slate roof. The building has two storeys and features four bays. The windows have plain reveals and projecting sills, except for the left-hand ground-floor window, which is modern. There is a doorway in the third bay that has a moulded surround with a four-centred head, displaying initials and the date 1627 on the lintel.
Local climate
Browfoot Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 51% 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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