Midtown Farm Cottages and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. House, barn.

Midtown Farm Cottages and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
secret-belfry-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1967
Type
House, barn
OS grid reference
NY 323 397
Coordinates
54.74802, -3.05187
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Midtown Farm Cottages and the adjoining barn are two houses and a barn built in the early to mid 19th century. They are constructed from coursed mixed limestone and sandstone rubble and feature a graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. The building consists of a two-storey, two-bay house on the right and a single-bay house on the left, which is connected to the barn, all under a common roof. The house on the right has a four-panel top-glazed door and sash windows with glazing bars set in painted chamfered surrounds. The house on the left has a plank door within an alternate-block surround and similar windows. The barn includes plank doors and upper-floor cross and oval vents. The buildings share a common roof with Bridge House and are listed partly for their group value with that house.

Local climate

Midtown Farm Cottages and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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