Kirkhead House and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. House, barn.
Kirkhead House and Barn Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- odd-tower-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- House, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 139 207
- Coordinates
- 54.57472, -3.33189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkhead House and the adjoining barn are a house and integral barn dating from the mid-18th century. The building features roughcast walls with an eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins on a chamfered plinth. It has a graduated greenslate roof that is hipped on the left side, along with cement rendered chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys tall and consists of three bays, with a single-bay extension on the left under a common roof.
The main entrance is a recessed panelled door set in a stone architrave, topped by a shell hood with a shaped cornice. The house has sash windows with glazing bars, all framed in painted stone architraves. The extension includes a small casement window in a plain reveal located beneath a sash window with glazing bars, also in a painted stone architrave. At the rear, there is a round-headed stair window featuring an intersecting-glazing-bar head. The rear of the barn extension includes outshuts and upper plank doors beneath a projecting hood, along with a further single-storey left pent extension.
Local climate
Kirkhead House and Barn Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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