Barn with Adjoining Cottage, Parallel to How Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Barn.
Barn with Adjoining Cottage, Parallel to How Bank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-ember-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1985
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 118 965
- Coordinates
- 54.35722, -3.3575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn dated 1749, with an adjoining cottage, located parallel to How Bank farmhouse. The structure is built of slobbered rubble with quoins and features a graduated slate roof with a stone ridge. The cottage has a rendered end chimney. It is a single-storey building. The barn has a segment-headed wagon door with vent slits on either side, along with a partially blocked door and window to the right and a blocked door to the left. The cottage includes a plank door and a small casement window to the left.
Local climate
Barn with Adjoining Cottage, Parallel to How Bank Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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