Orthwaite Hall and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Farmhouse and barn.

Orthwaite Hall and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
stony-moulding-meadow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1967
Type
Farmhouse and barn
OS grid reference
NY 252 341
Coordinates
54.69712, -3.161
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Orthwaite Hall and the adjoining barn are a farmhouse and former house, likely built in the late 16th century or early 17th century. The barn features a coat-of-arms panel above its doorway, inscribed with "C.R.1675," indicating Christopher Richmond, and displays the arms of the Richmond family of Highhead alongside the Hudleston family of Hutton John. The structure is constructed from painted mixed slate and limestone rubble, topped with a graduated greenslate roof and stone chimney stacks.

The barn has roughcast walls and a roof that is partly replaced with corrugated asbestos. It stands two storeys high and consists of six bays, with a right-angled barn to the left that shares a common roof line. A 20th-century panelled door is set within a stone architrave under a segmental pediment. The building features two-light stone-mullioned windows with 19th-century leaded casements, all framed by architraves beneath a pulvinated frieze and cornice. The barn has blocked original house windows that are now covered by roughcast.

A central doorway displays a chamfered alternate-block surround beneath a keyed lintel, while a plank loft door and other openings are from the 19th and 20th centuries. Rear extensions include elements from the 17th and 19th centuries; the right extension has a two-light window with a removed stone mullion and a 19th-century round-headed staircase window to the left. The property belonged to the Simpson family in the early 17th century before being purchased by the Richmonds. The Browne family acquired it in the early 18th century and held it until 1894.

Local climate

Orthwaite Hall and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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