Barn Opposite Iredale Place Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Barn.

Barn Opposite Iredale Place Cottage

WRENN ID
muted-pedestal-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Barn
Address
Barn Opposite Iredale Place Cottage, Loweswater, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 110 226
Coordinates
54.59142, -3.37794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located opposite Iredale Place Cottage, dating from the late 17th century. It features whitewashed slate walls and a graduated greenslate roof, with a corrugated roof on an extension. The barn is two storeys high and has three bays. There are two doorways with chamfered surrounds and a central loft doorway also with a chamfered surround. An off-centre buttress is present, and there are upper-floor openings on two levels. To the left, there is a single-storey extension with a sliding plank door. The barn is listed for its group value with Iredale Place Cottage.

Local climate

Barn Opposite Iredale Place Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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