Lower Ruthwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. A C17 Farmhouse, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Ruthwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- moated-cobalt-magpie
- 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, barn
- Address
- Lower Ruthwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn, CA7 1HG
- OS grid reference
- NY 238 367
- Coordinates
- 54.72025, -3.18356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Ruthwaite Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are dated 1691, as indicated by the inscription above the entrance, with 19th and 20th-century alterations. The building features painted rendered walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof and has rebuilt stone chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with a right-angled barn to the right, creating an overall L-shape. The rendered porch includes an inner plank door set in a painted architrave with a dated lintel. The windows are 20th-century casements within 19th-century painted stone surrounds, except for the upper floor window on the right, which is in an enlarged 20th-century surround. To the left, there is a small lean-to extension with rounded corners. The barn features a large projecting cart entrance on the left and a plank door on the right, flanked by casement windows.
Local climate
Lower Ruthwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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 — 2 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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