Bishopspot is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. House.
Bishopspot
- WRENN ID
- low-panel-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bishopspot, Mungrisdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 374 360
- Coordinates
- 54.71587, -2.9719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishopspot is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It is dated and inscribed over the former barn entrance with "J.G. 1746" and also over the house entrance with "J. & D.G. 1747," referring to Joseph and Dina Grisenthwaite. The building features mixed rubble and cobbles beneath a graduated local slate roof, with a rebuilt stone chimney stack. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with a former barn of two bays to the right under a common roof.
The main entrance has a boarded door set in a chamfered surround with a shaped lintel inscription. The windows are 20th-century casements within original chamfered surrounds. There are fire windows on both floors to the left; the upper floor window has a reused inverted lintel inscribed "RR 161..." with another fragment of the same inscription below. The former barn entrance has a chamfered surround and a blocked slit vent above. Flanking windows are 20th-century in cement surrounds, chamfered to match the existing windows. There is one small chamfered-surround window at the rear and additional 20th-century windows. The left gable wall has been rebuilt.
Inside, the house features an inglenook with a firebeam and a heck partition, as well as a beamed ceiling. The building was derelict for many years before being restored in the late 1970s.
Local climate
Bishopspot sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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