Underfield is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Residential. 5 related planning applications.
Underfield
- WRENN ID
- eternal-pediment-heron
- 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
- Residential
- Address
- Underfield, Colton, Westmorland and Furness, LA12 8HU
- OS grid reference
- SD 318 841
- Coordinates
- 54.24808, -3.04716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Underfield comprises two houses with associated outbuildings. The original house dates to 1649, with a subsequent extension built around the 18th century and a further extension added in the 1920s. The construction is primarily roughcast stone with slate roofs.
The original house is of three bays, with a single-storey bay to the left and outbuildings to the right. A dripcourse runs above the ground-floor windows, which are raised over a decorated lintel marking the entrance, inscribed with "IG/1649". Ground-floor windows are modern casements with leaded glazing, while one bay has a fire window with a stone surround. The first floor features single-chamfered mullioned windows arranged in a 1:4:3:4-light pattern. There is a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack. The later extension is of six bays, with the first bay, which is lower, forming the end bay of the outhouses, and the final two bays dating to the 1920s. The outbuildings have entrance and loading doors. The later house has sash windows with glazing bars, with paired sashes in the second, fourth, and sixth bays; the first bay has casements with leaded glazing. The entrance features a half-glazed, panelled door with a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets. The later house also has two gable-end and two cross-axial stacks. The rear elevation is similar.
The earlier house has small-paned casements to the return of a rear wing, while the later house includes a modern wing adjacent to a lean-to projection. Inside the original house are chamfered stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, one set above a fireplace with fielded panels. There's a panelled timber partition and a heck partition, together with a fireplace made from sills and lintels from former ground-floor windows. The first floor has plank and muntin partitions.
Local climate
Underfield sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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