Bennethead Farmhouse and Attached Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Bennethead Farmhouse and Attached Barns

WRENN ID
under-cobalt-jay
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
Address
Bennethead Farmhouse and Attached Barns, Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness, CA11 0LT
OS grid reference
NY 440 238
Coordinates
54.60661, -2.86695
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmhouse and attached barns likely date from the early 18th century, with later additions and a raised roof. The house is constructed of stone rubble, with a roughcast finish on the front, and has slate roofs. Originally three bays, the third bay was probably added later. The first two bays have windows with chamfered reveals, sash windows with vertical glazing bars and horns. The ground floor windows are smaller, with two to the first bay (one likely a former entrance), and a two-light window with a flat-faced mullion to the second bay. The third bay has sash windows, and a front entrance with chamfered reveals leading to a half-glazed door. A gable-end stack and two axial stacks are present. An outbuilding to the right has two blocked doors and two inserted openings. The barn to the left is lower, with a segmental-headed entrance containing barn doors, and an owl hole in the gable end. A catslide outshut and a later gabled wing extend from the rear of the house.

Local climate

Bennethead Farmhouse and Attached Barns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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