Low Blakebank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. House. 3 related planning applications.
Low Blakebank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-trefoil-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low Blakebank Farmhouse, Underbarrow and Bradleyfield, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 8BN
- OS grid reference
- SD 456 913
- Coordinates
- 54.31524, -2.83699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property is a 17th-century farmhouse, altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast rubble walls with a slate roof and end chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high. A central 6-panelled door is set within a porch of stone slabs. To the left of the door is a 12-paned window with a single opening light, and to the right, an 8-paned sash window. The upper floor has three sash windows with glazing bars.
Inside, the roof structure is substantial, featuring two levels of purlins. An entrance passage is divided by a plank and muntin partition. A late 17th-century staircase has a closed string, turned balusters, a heavy moulded handrail, and square newels. A dairy contains a blocked 17th-century window with diagonal timber mullions. Original plank floors remain on the upper floor, while the ground floors are of slate. Several original doors and some early 19th-century doors remain.
Local climate
Low Blakebank Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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