Longhouses Farmhouse and Attached Shippon is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. A C17 Farmhouse.
Longhouses Farmhouse and Attached Shippon
- WRENN ID
- ruined-granite-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Longhouses Farmhouse and Attached Shippon, Kentmere, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 459 030
- Coordinates
- 54.42007, -2.83513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longhouses Farmhouse and attached shippon, which includes a hayloft at a higher level, dates back to 1703, marked by the initials and date WFD (for William and Dorothy Fleming) in a diamond-shaped plaster panel above the porch. However, the structure is believed to be from the 17th century or earlier, with a later extension added to the rear. The farmhouse features limewashed rubble walls, a graduated green slate roof, a stone ridge, and end chimneys. It stands two storeys high with three irregularly placed windows.
The central gabled stone porch, likely a later addition, has a slate roof and a heavy boarded and studded door framed in plain timber. There is one fixed light window and one York slider on either side of the porch, both beneath a continuous slate drip. On the upper floor, there is one fixed light window with a chamfered timber mullion and two York sliders.
Inside, the farmhouse includes an ingle-nook with an inserted 18th-century fireplace, chamfered beams, and moulded plank and muntin partitions on the lower floor. There is a three-stage cupboard featuring the initials and date WFD 1711, along with a small spice cupboard with the same initials and date 1708. The dog-leg stair has a stone lower flight, and there is a plank and muntin partition with plaster infill on the upper floor. The shippon and hayloft are likely from the late 18th century, constructed with rough slate rubble walls that have protruding through stones, a graduated green slate roof, and a continuous slate canopy that protects the shippon doors.
Local climate
Longhouses Farmhouse and Attached Shippon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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