Picket How and Former Byre is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse.
Picket How and Former Byre
- WRENN ID
- secret-beam-gorse
- 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
- Address
- Picket How and Former Byre, Buttermere, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 155 220
- Coordinates
- 54.58617, -3.30831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Picket How and the former byre is a farmhouse and former byre, now part of a dwelling, dating from the late 17th century. It features painted roughcast walls on a projecting plinth, topped with a graduated greenslate roof and roughcast and brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a lower former byre to the left and a rear extension that creates an overall T-shape.
On the façade, there are 2-light stone-mullioned windows on either side of a small window that may have originally been a firewindow. The upper floor has a smaller 2-light stone-mullioned window, while some of the other windows have had their mullions removed. A cross-passage doorway features a plank door set within a late 18th-century painted stone surround, topped by a shaped lintel. Additionally, there is a sash window in the former byre that has a similar surround and shaped lintel.
Local climate
Picket How and Former Byre 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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