Godferhead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Godferhead Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-banister-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Godferhead Farmhouse, Loweswater, Cumberland, CA13 0RT
OS grid reference
NY 145 213
Coordinates
54.58019, -3.3228
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Godferhead Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with an extension that is dated and inscribed over the doorway as RS 1773. The building features painted roughcast walls on projecting plinth stones, with the extension also in painted roughcast, complete with an eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins. Both sections are topped with a graduated greenslate roof and have roughcast chimney stacks.

The original house is low, with two storeys and two bays, while the extension, which is at right angles to the original, is higher, with two storeys and three bays. The original house has two- and three-light stone-mullioned windows on the ground floor, which are sheltered by a continuous hood, and two-light stone-mullioned windows on the upper floor. The extension features a glazed and panelled door set in a pilastered surround beneath an open segmental pediment, along with sash windows that have glazing bars in painted stone architraves.

On the right return wall of the original house, there is a plank door in a 19th-century painted stone surround. At the rear, a contemporary outshut has small casement windows in original plain reveals, and the rear of the extension includes a round-headed staircase window with radial glazing bars.

Local climate

Godferhead Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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