Fold End Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse, barns.
Fold End Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns
- WRENN ID
- open-vestry-marsh
- 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, barns
- OS grid reference
- NY 275 162
- Coordinates
- 54.53651, -3.12073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fold End Farmhouse and the adjoining barns date from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with some additions made in the late 18th century. The buildings feature mixed slate rubble walls with large flush slate quoins, and the farmhouse has roughcast cladding. The roof is made of graduated greenslate, hipped to the right, and includes slate chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high with three bays, and there is a lower two-bay extension at the rear right, along with an L-shaped barn to the left that shares a common roof. The farmhouse has 20th-century doors and windows set in plain reveals, with a smaller fire window on the ground floor to the right. The extension has similar windows. The barn features plank doors and loft doorways, as well as a large cart entrance. The farmhouse includes a rear studded plank door. Inside, there are beamed ceilings and a rear internal semicircular stone staircase. The property is mentioned in the Herries series of books by Sir Hugh Walpole.
Local climate
Fold End Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns 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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