Shap Abbey Farmhouse with Attached Byre Range is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Shap Abbey Farmhouse with Attached Byre Range
- WRENN ID
- endless-solder-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 548 151
- Coordinates
- 54.52983, -2.69992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shap Abbey Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may date back to the 16th century, as it features 16th-century mullioned windows in a mid-19th-century drawing by Thomas Bland. It was remodelled in the late 19th century, and the attached byre range is likely a 17th or 18th-century addition. The building is constructed from re-used stone from the Abbey, with the house made of coursed blocks and quoins, while the byres are built of slobbered rubble. It has graduated slate roofs, with a wing and lean-tos at the rear of the house.
The farmhouse is two storeys tall, and the byre range has an L-shaped plan that adjoins the south end of the house. Originally, the house had four bays but was extended by one bay into the byre range, and the roof was raised during the remodelling. The front features a 20th-century part-glazed door set within a re-used medieval doorcase that has a semicircular head and continuous roll-moulding, along with a decorative medieval corbel above. To the right of the door is a sash window, while to the left are two sashes and a garage door. Above, there are five sash windows, all with 16 panes and set in 19th-century chamfered surrounds.
On the north side, there is a 16-pane sash window in a double-chamfered surround, also with a decorative medieval corbel above. The ends of the building have rendered chimneys. The byres feature four doors (two of which are now blocked with inserted windows) and three windows, along with two loft doors and two blocked windows above. There is also a stable door in the east return.
Local climate
Shap Abbey Farmhouse with Attached Byre Range 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 90% 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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