Lowside Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Farmhouse, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Lowside Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- sharp-frieze-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Lowside Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Askham, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 2QA
- OS grid reference
- NY 510 218
- Coordinates
- 54.58983, -2.7594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowside Farmhouse and the attached barn date from the early 18th century, with later additions. The barn features an ex-situ date stone that reads 'I & EL/1642'. The building is constructed of stone rubble, while the farmhouse is roughcast, both topped with slate roofs.
The south elevation of the farmhouse has two storeys and three bays, with the third bay added later. The first two bays include a drip course raised over a window and the gable of a removed porch. The ground floor features a single-chamfered-mullioned window with small-paned glazing and a sash window, while the first floor has sashes in what were once two-light windows. The third bay has sashed windows with glazing bars and chamfered jambs. The entrance to the second bay has chamfered reveals and a half-glazed door. Gable-end stacks are present.
A small connecting block to the west links the farmhouse to the barn. The east elevation of the barn has a segmental-headed entrance that is partially blocked, along with the ex-situ date stone. The east return features a lean-to outshut. The north elevation has an outshut under a cat-slide roof, along with a later 20th-century outshut and a gabled wing that includes a gable-end stack. The west elevation of the barn has a segmental-headed entrance and an addition at the north end that features a lateral stack. There are also sashed windows with glazing bars next to the entrance.
Local climate
Lowside Farmhouse and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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