Brown Beck Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse, barns. 2 related planning applications.
Brown Beck Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns
- WRENN ID
- narrow-tin-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, barns
- Address
- Brown Beck Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns, CA12 4TF
- OS grid reference
- NY 301 214
- Coordinates
- 54.58328, -3.08212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brown Beck Farmhouse and the adjoining barns date from the late 17th century. The farmhouse features painted roughcast walls, while the barns are constructed of slate rubble, all covered by graduated greenslate roofs with rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has two bays, with a barn to the right under a common roof and a lower barn to the left.
Inside, there is a plain boarded floor beneath a wooden lintel within a 17th-century gabled stone porch that includes side seats. The windows are fixed-pane with glazing bars, and there is a smaller kitchen window on the ground floor to the right. The barn on the right has plank doors flanking an upper-floor casement window, while the barn on the left features large double plank doors. There is also a lean-to woodshed at the extreme left. The interior includes an inglenook with a firebeam, beamed ceilings, and a built-in 17th-century court cupboard, as well as an internal rear semicircular stone staircase.
Local climate
Brown Beck Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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