How Bank Farmhouse with Adjoining Barn and Byre is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Farmhouse.

How Bank Farmhouse with Adjoining Barn and Byre

WRENN ID
waiting-string-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1985
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
SD 118 965
Coordinates
54.35717, -3.35724
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

How Bank Farmhouse is a house, likely built in the mid-18th century, with a date of 1749 noted on a beam in the barn opposite. It features later additions and alterations. The structure is made of rendered rubble with quoins and has graduated slate roofs with rendered chimneys. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a wing that projects to the rear. It is two storeys high and has a four-bay facade. The entrance includes a plank door set in a gabled porch, flanked by paired sash windows and a single sash window to the right, with two additional sash windows on the first floor. To the left, there is a two-bay threshing barn that contains a window and a winnowing door, along with large double doors at the rear. The lower byre on the far left has two doors and loft access above.

Local climate

How Bank Farmhouse with Adjoining Barn and Byre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 59% 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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