Midtown is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. A C17 Farmhouse.
Midtown
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-jade-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Midtown, Lorton, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 161 256
- Coordinates
- 54.61918, -3.30073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midtown is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private dwelling. It is dated and inscribed over the entrance with "P.W. 1678" and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of mixed slate rubble and features a graduated greenslate roof with original roughcast chimney stacks. It has two storeys, four bays, and a contemporary extension at the rear.
The entrance includes a top-glazed recessed door set in a stone architrave beneath the inscribed lintel. To the left of the door is a flat stone-mullioned three-light window, while to the right is a sash window with glazing bars. The window to the right of the doorway is round-headed and has a surround dated 1844, although it retains elements of the original 17th-century surround. All openings are topped with a continuous hoodmould.
On the upper floor, there are two- and three-light windows. The left return wall features a projecting gable chimney stack and a small oval window on the upper floor. The rear extension has side two-light windows under hoodmoulds and projecting drip slates, with additional windows from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Midtown 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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- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1998
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