Coppice Barn Approximately 600 Yards North East of Gowan Bank Farm at Ngr 449984 is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. Barn.
Coppice Barn Approximately 600 Yards North East of Gowan Bank Farm at Ngr 449984
- WRENN ID
- turning-merlon-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 449 984
- Coordinates
- 54.37872, -2.84961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coppice Barn, built around 1850, is located approximately 600 yards northeast of Gowan Bank Farm. The barn features stone rubble walls and a graduated greenslate roof adorned with blue glazed ridge tiles, which are supported by circular rubble columns. It consists of two bays and has simple roof trusses. This barn is noted as the only known complete example of a small building of its type in the area and is in very good repair.
Local climate
Coppice Barn Approximately 600 Yards North East of Gowan Bank Farm at Ngr 449984 sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 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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