Hole House and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House, barn.

Hole House and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
dusk-chancel-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, barn
OS grid reference
SD 363 999
Coordinates
54.39109, -2.98107
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hole House and the adjoining barn are a house and bank barn dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, with the barn likely being built later. The structures are made of stone rubble, with the house being roughcast and both having slate roofs. The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays. Most of the windows are casements, but the window in the first bay of the ground floor is a sash with vertical glazing bars and horns. The entrance features a gabled porch, and there is a gable-end stack. The left side of the house has a small lean-to outshut, while the rear has a stair projection under a cat slide roof. Some windows have timber lintels.

The barn has quoins, and its entrance has a segmental head. It includes two small windows, a winnowing door, and ventilation slots above. The rear of the barn has a projection and an entrance pentice under a cat slide roof. The return side features two segmental-headed entrances and a diamond-shaped owl hole. Inside the house, there are stop-chamfered beams, a plank and muntin partition with a two-panel door, and a stone dog-leg stair. The barn contains cow house partitions. The property is owned by the National Trust.

Local climate

Hole House and Adjoining 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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