Seathwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse, barn.

Seathwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
vacant-quoin-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
Farmhouse, barn
OS grid reference
NY 235 121
Coordinates
54.49902, -3.18201
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Seathwaite Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are notable structures located in Borrowdale, with the farmhouse dated to 1663 based on timber found in the interior, and the barn dated to 1851. The farmhouse features painted roughcast walls, while the barn is constructed from slate rubble and has projecting drip slates. Both buildings are topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes roughcast chimney stacks and slate cowling. The farmhouse has ground-floor Yorkshire sash windows with glazing bars set in enlarged plain reveals, and there is a 20th-century door in a plain opening. The barn is equipped with a plank door and a casement window. The buildings have undergone some alterations in the 19th century.

Local climate

Seathwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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