Middles' Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. Farmhouse, barn.

Middles' Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
kindled-cinder-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1985
Type
Farmhouse, barn
OS grid reference
NY 357 323
Coordinates
54.68186, -2.99871
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Middles' Farmhouse and the adjoining barn date back to 1722, as indicated by the inscription for George and Mary Marke, with the barn being dated 1805 above its entrance. The farmhouse features roughcast walls with raised painted quoins on the right side and a graduated greenslate roof topped with stone and yellow brick chimney stacks. The barn is constructed from a mix of slate and split-cobble rubble, with rusticated sandstone quoins on the right. The farmhouse is two storeys high and originally had six bays, but now has five, with a single-bay barn to the right under a common roof.

The main entrance has an off-centre plank door set in a painted stone surround, topped with an inscribed frieze and an open segmental pediment. There is an additional door on the extreme left in a painted stone surround. The windows are flat cross-mullioned, and those between the entrances have been modified to include an additional central light. Above the entrance is a round window, and there is a blocked single-light window on the upper floor. The barn features plank doors and a loft, with alternate block sandstone surrounds. A segmental cart entrance in the end wall includes a dated keystone.

Local climate

Middles' Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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