Millbeck 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.
Millbeck Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-lead-sunrise
- 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
- Millbeck Farmhouse, Buttermere, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 162 236
- Coordinates
- 54.60073, -3.29737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Millbeck Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located in Buttermere. It features painted stucco with angle pilasters and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has coped gables. The building has roughcast chimney stacks and is two storeys high with three bays. The entrance includes a six-panel door beneath a radial fanlight, all set within a pilastered surround that has a false keystone. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Millbeck 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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