Keld Head Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Farmhouse, barn. 5 related planning applications.

Keld Head Farmhouse and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
sheer-pier-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1991
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Keld Head Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Askham, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 2PG
OS grid reference
NY 511 236
Coordinates
54.60596, -2.75752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keld Head Farmhouse and the attached barn are a farmhouse and barn complex. The farmhouse features a lintel that reads "IT/1704," while the barn is dated 1814, with later additions. The farmhouse is constructed of rough-cast stone, and the barn is made of dressed stone with ashlar dressings, both topped with slate roofs. The farmhouse has two storeys and five bays, with the first bay being an addition and a projecting barn to the right. It has a coped gable with kneelers, square windows with chamfered reveals and casements, which were likely originally fitted with flat-faced mullions. The ground floor has two windows in the fifth bay and a tall window in the first bay. A gable porch in the fourth bay includes a return entrance and an inner entrance with a dated lintel. The farmhouse features an ashlar cross-axial stack with a cap.

The barn includes three cow house entrances, two windows, and a winnowing door with a dated lintel, as well as square ventilation holes. There is a projecting gable-end stack next to the farmhouse. The rear of the farmhouse has a gabled wing with sashed windows that have glazing bars, a lean-to outshut with small-paned fixed glazing and opening lights, and a two-light single-chamfered-mullioned window. The barn has a ramp leading to its entrance and a lean-to outshut to the left, which is part of a long gabled wing with a stone slate roof.

Local climate

Keld Head Farmhouse and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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