Derwentfolds and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. Farmhouse.
Derwentfolds and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- former-solder-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 297 254
- Coordinates
- 54.61919, -3.08916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Derwentfolds and the adjoining barn is a farmhouse, likely originally two houses, dating from the mid-17th century with 19th-century alterations and additions. The building features whitewashed rubble set on large projecting plinth stones, topped by a graduated greenslate roof with rendered and brick chimney stacks. The barn is constructed from a mix of cobbles and slate rubble.
The right part of the farmhouse is two-storey and two-bay, while the left part is a lower two-storey, three-bay section, with a lower barn to the extreme left. The right portion is probably the oldest part of the structure. It has sash windows, with double windows on both floors, all framed in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The left portion includes a plank door and sash windows with glazing bars, except for two on the right side. The barn features a blank front wall.
At the rear of the oldest part, there is a pent stone porch with a side seat and niche, as well as a semicircular stone staircase that flanks a dairy with slate slab shelves. A coalhouse under the stairs has a 17th-century oak door and hinges. The rear of the other part includes a semicircular stair projection, although the staircase has been removed. The rear of the barn has plank doors and small openings with lofts above.
Local climate
Derwentfolds and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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