Holme Ground Cottage, Barn, and Stable is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House, barn, stable.
Holme Ground Cottage, Barn, and Stable
- WRENN ID
- dark-truss-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, barn, stable
- Address
- Holme Ground Cottage, Barn, and Stable, Skelwith, South Lakeland
- OS grid reference
- NY 311 011
- Coordinates
- 54.40151, -3.06225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holme Ground Cottage, barn, and stable are a house, bank barn, and stable dating from the early 18th century and later. The buildings are constructed of painted stone rubble, with the outhouses unpainted, and feature slate roofs. The house is two storeys high with two bays, while the stable is located to the left and the barn, which includes a cowhouse below, adjoins at right angles to the right.
The house has casement windows and a central entrance that is topped with a slate gabled canopy. The stable features an entrance flanked by windows, all beneath a slate dripcourse. At the right end of the stable, there is a small re-entrant block at the angle between the house and barn, which has a wide-boarded door. The cowhouse has two entrances flanking a window, which was formerly an entrance, and is covered by a pentice. There is also a blocked winnowing door leading to the upper level.
The right side of the stable has a crow-stepped gable and a slate dripcourse, along with a later lean-to extension. The rear of the stable includes a garage door at the upper level and another lean-to extension. The rear of the house displays varied fenestration. The barn has a rear entrance with a pentice and pivoted wide-boarded doors. Inside the cowhouse, there are slate partitions set in timber frames. This property is owned by the National Trust and was a gift from Beatrix Potter.
Local climate
Holme Ground Cottage, Barn, and Stable sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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