Steps End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Steps End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-brass-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Steps End Farmhouse, Borrowdale, Cumberland, CA12 5UW
- OS grid reference
- NY 275 163
- Coordinates
- 54.53757, -3.12074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steps End Farmhouse is a farmhouse from the mid-17th century. It features painted slate rubble walls with a slate string course on projecting plinth stones, topped by a graduated greenslate roof with painted rendered chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. A 17th-century studded plank door is set within a 17th-century gabled stone porch that includes side seats. The windows are irregular casements with glazing bars in plain reveals. The name was changed back to its original name by the National Trust around 1980. There is a 20th-century extension to the right and a barn to the left, which are not of interest.
Local climate
Steps End Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- 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
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