Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House. 3 related planning applications.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-thatch-marsh
- 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
- House
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Askham, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 2PG
- OS grid reference
- NY 510 236
- Coordinates
- 54.60549, -2.75897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a house dating from 1660. It is constructed of rough-cast stone with a slate roof and has two storeys in an L-plan layout. The east elevation features a pentice on the ground floor and small casement windows. The entrance has a sunk triangular head and a dated lintel. On the first floor, there is another casement window. The adjacent south elevation includes a three-light double-chamfered-mullioned window with a label mould above the entrance, and there is a gable-end stack. The north elevation has a blocked chamfered window and a later casement. The west elevation also has casement windows. Inside the north wing, there are chamfered beams and a corbelled fireplace.
Local climate
Hill Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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