Raw Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Raw Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hollow-window-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Raw Head Farmhouse, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9JS
- OS grid reference
- NY 304 067
- Coordinates
- 54.45113, -3.07481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Raw Head Farmhouse is a 17th-century building designed in an L plan. It is constructed of white-washed stone rubble and features a slate roof with end chimneys. The farmhouse has two storeys and includes a boarded door and a 5-light window, both situated under a lean-to slate canopy. There are two additional windows on the ground floor and three small windows above, all with small panes. To the west, a single-storeyed wing projects forward and contains a door and a window. The gable end of the building has double-decker bee boles topped with a slate slab.
Local climate
Raw Head Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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