Abbot Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House.
Abbot Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-bronze-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbot Park Farmhouse, Colton, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 312 880
- Coordinates
- 54.28382, -3.05693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbot Park Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century or 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The ground-floor windows are small-paned casements, and there is a fire window in the first bay. The first-floor windows have small-paned fixed glazing with opening side lights. The central entrance is plain and has a dripstone above it. There are gable-end stacks, with the one on the right featuring two round shafts, likely added in the 19th or 20th century. To the left, there is a 20th-century breeze block outbuilding that also has a small-paned casement. At the rear, there is a wing with a projecting gable-end stack, and it has similar windows to the left return, including a stair window with a bull's eye. The right return has plain casements, and there is a re-entrant lean-to extension with a single-pitched roof, an entrance, and a gable-end casement, along with a stack at the ridge. Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered beams and a stone stair.
Local climate
Abbot Park Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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