Rough Close and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Farmhouse, barns.

Rough Close and Adjoining Barns

WRENN ID
quartered-merlon-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1986
Type
Farmhouse, barns
OS grid reference
NY 278 366
Coordinates
54.72007, -3.12226
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rough Close and the adjoining barns are a farmhouse and barns dating from the early 18th century. They feature whitewashed rubble walls topped with a graduated greenslate roof, along with stone and rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a single-bay barn on the right under a common roof and a lower right-angled L-shaped barn to the left, creating an overall U-shape. There is a plank door in a wooden surround, and sash windows set in chamfered stone surrounds, with smaller fire windows flanking the ground floor window and one above. The barns have plank doors and open cart entrances, with slit vents positioned above. The rear of the house has 20th-century windows. Inside, there is an inglenook with a firebeam and beamed ceilings. The brick extensions to the barns are not considered of interest.

Local climate

Rough Close 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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