Helks and Farm Buildings in Same Range is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. House, farm buildings.

Helks and Farm Buildings in Same Range

WRENN ID
swift-copper-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1986
Type
House, farm buildings
Address
Helks and Farm Buildings in Same Range, Wray-With-Botton
OS grid reference
SD 647 638
Coordinates
54.06904, -2.54078
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Helks is a house, likely built in the early 18th century, along with farm buildings that probably date from the later 18th century. The structure is made of sandstone rubble, featuring a stone slate roof for the farm buildings and a slate roof for the house. The house has two storeys with one bay on each side of a single-storey gabled porch. The windows are irregularly spaced and have rebated and chamfered surrounds. The door, located to the right of the front porch wall, has a stone surround, and there is a chimney on the right side.

To the right of the house is a farm building with a door that has plain reveals on the left. To the left is a barn that features a wide entrance with a segmental arch and a cruck re-used as an inner lintel. There is also a door with plain reveals on the left side of the barn. Inside the house, the right-hand room contains axial main joists and a shouldered fireplace typical of the 18th century. Additionally, there is a recess in the ceiling in front of the fireplace designed for hanging meat to dry.

Local climate

Helks and Farm Buildings in Same Range 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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