Mary Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House.
Mary Bank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cellar-finch
- 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
- Mary Bank Farmhouse, Caton Green Road, Caton-With-Littledale
- OS grid reference
- SD 550 652
- Coordinates
- 54.08144, -2.68882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mary Bank Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building has a two-cell plan, with a third cell added to the right. It stands two storeys high and has three bays. The windows in the first and second bays have plain stone surrounds. The first bay contains sashed windows with glazing bars, while the second bay features double windows separated by a square mullion; the ground floor window is modern, and the first-floor window has glazing bars, with the right-hand window being sashed. The right-hand bay, which is beyond a straight joint, has a window with plain reveals on the first floor and a modern door with plain reveals. The door located between the first and second bays has a moulded surround and a stepped lintel inscribed with 'WIG 1683'. There are chimneys on the gables, with the left-hand chimney having a projecting stack, and another chimney located to the right of the second bay.
Local climate
Mary Bank 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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