Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and Adjoining Store is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farmhouse and adjoining store. 1 related planning application.
Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and Adjoining Store
- WRENN ID
- weathered-forge-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse and adjoining store
- Address
- Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and Adjoining Store, CA10 3TF
- OS grid reference
- NY 593 054
- Coordinates
- 54.44259, -2.62818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and the adjoining store are likely from the 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The farmhouse is built of coursed slate rubble with quoins on a plinth, while the house itself is stuccoed. It features a graduated slate roof, with the original house having a stair outshut at the rear and an additional outshut added to the rear of a 19th-century extension. The farmhouse has two storeys and consists of four bays. There is a plank door in a gabled porch, with a fixed window to the left and two sash windows to the right; above, there are three more sash windows. The house has two end chimneys, with the right-hand one originally projecting. The two-bay 19th-century extension on the right has a 20th-century part-glazed door and a casement window to the right on each floor, along with a corbelled end chimney. All windows, except for the ground floor right window, have glazing bars. The adjoining store, also likely from the 17th century, shares the same roofline as the house. Inside, the ground floor room to the left is separated from the passage by a plank and muntin partition, while the room to the right of the passage features a chamfered fire beam and original joists, along with plank doors.
Local climate
Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and Adjoining Store sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings