Lowther Outdoor Activities Centre with Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Farmhouse.
Lowther Outdoor Activities Centre with Barn Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- plain-ashlar-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 513 237
- Coordinates
- 54.60621, -2.75446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowther Outdoor Activities Centre, which includes an adjoining barn, is a farmhouse that has been adapted for use as an outdoor activities centre. It dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone some alterations in the 19th century. The building features painted rough-cast and incised rendered walls, topped with a graduated green slate roof and limestone chimney-stacks, some of which have been rebuilt.
The structure is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a two-bay extension on the left and a two-bay former stable, all covered by a common roof. The lower right section is a three-bay barn. The house has a cross-passage doorway with a 20th-century door and overlight set in a painted stone surround. There are 20th-century casement windows also in painted stone surrounds. The left extension includes two large sash windows framed by 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The former stable features a plank door in a painted stone surround and a double-plank-door cart entrance. The barn has a projecting central cart entrance flanked by plank doors in stone surrounds.
Local climate
Lowther Outdoor Activities Centre with Barn Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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