Barn Syke Helm Lea is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
Barn Syke Helm Lea
- WRENN ID
- fallow-stronghold-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barn Syke Helm Lea, Main Street, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 351 982
- Coordinates
- 54.37544, -2.99941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn Syke and Helm Lea are two houses dating from the early to mid 19th century. They are constructed of roughcast with a slate roof and stand two storeys high, each featuring three bays. The windows are sashed and include glazing bars and margin lights. Each house has a central entrance with a half-glazed door and a gabled glazed porch. There is a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack.
Local climate
Barn Syke Helm Lea sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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