Chapel House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Farmhouse.
Chapel House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-foundation-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chapel House Farmhouse, Cartmel Fell, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 416 882
- Coordinates
- 54.28612, -2.89714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel House Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located in Cartmel Fell. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays. On the ground floor, there are windows with small-paned fixed glazing and opening lights; the window in the third bay is larger and has a drip course above it. The first floor contains sashed windows with vertical glazing bars. The entrance features a six-panel door topped by a slated gabled hood supported by iron posts. The farmhouse has gable-end stacks and a rear gabled wing that includes a lean-to outshut on the left and a lean-to hood over the entrance on the right. The wing has a three-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window on the ground floor. The right return has a shuttered attic light. Inside, there is a spice cupboard with carved ornamentation and a date on the door, as well as a stone winding stair.
Local climate
Chapel House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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