Green Head and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Farmhouse, barns. 1 related planning application.
Green Head and Adjoining Barns
- WRENN ID
- winter-facade-grove
- 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
- Farmhouse, barns
- Address
- Green Head and Adjoining Barns, CA7 8HD
- OS grid reference
- NY 285 371
- Coordinates
- 54.72407, -3.11089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Green Head is a farmhouse with adjoining barns, dated and inscribed over the entrance with "T & SS 1732." The building features painted rendered walls over a mix of limestone and cobble rubble, topped with graduated greenslate roofs and rendered chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with lower flanking barns and a right-angled extension at the rear, creating an overall T-shape. The gabled stone porch has a dated and inscribed lintel. The farmhouse has sash windows set in painted stone surrounds, while there is a 20th-century door to the extreme left. The barns are equipped with plank doors and slit vents, and the rear extension includes 20th-century windows.
Local climate
Green Head and Adjoining Barns 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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