Town End Cottage and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House, barn.
Town End Cottage and Barn
- WRENN ID
- ancient-cellar-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Town End Cottage and Barn, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 358 981
- Coordinates
- 54.37451, -2.98903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town End Cottage and Barn is a house and barn, probably from the 18th century. The building is constructed of stone, with the house part being roughcast and a slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays, with the barn located to the left and featuring a wing to the south. There is a drip course along the building. The windows have small-paned fixed glazing with a pivoted top half. The entrance features a flat-topped slate slab porch and a half-glazed door. The house has a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack.
The barn has a hipped gable end on the south wing, with a cat slide outshut on the right return. There are entrances for the cow house, along with a large adjacent entrance. The right return of the barn has three upper louvred openings above a later roughcast lean-to outshut. The rear of the house has three windows, two of which have small-paned fixed glazing. The barn features windows under the drip course, along with upper ventilation holes. The left return of the house includes a lean-to outhouse with a rear stack.
Local climate
Town End Cottage and Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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