High Brow is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House.
High Brow
- WRENN ID
- rough-terrace-amber
- 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
- House
- Address
- High Brow, Barton and Pooley Bridge, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 489 254
- Coordinates
- 54.62126, -2.79135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Brow is a house, probably built in the early 18th century, with later additions. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The east elevation features two storeys and five bays. On the ground floor, there are two three-light windows with flat-faced mullions and fillet surrounds, along with a fire window in the fifth bay. The first floor has similar two-light windows, with a single light in the fifth bay. The entrance, located between the second and third bays, is framed by an architrave, frieze, and cornice. The house has gable-end stacks, one of which is corbelled.
The south side has a gabled garage with an entrance on the west, while the north side includes a 20th-century sun lounge. At the rear, there is an outshut beneath a catslide roof featuring two-light windows, one of which is a single-chamfered mullioned window. There are two windows on the south side that are likely 20th-century reproductions, and a plain entrance along with a two-light window on the north side provides access to the outshut.
Local climate
High Brow 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings