Wood Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.

Wood Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solitary-brass-sienna
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1974
Type
House
Address
Wood Farmhouse, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1LG
OS grid reference
NY 394 015
Coordinates
54.40587, -2.93485
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wood Farmhouse is a building from the 17th and 18th centuries located in Troutbeck. It features thick stone rubble walls that are covered with roughcast and has an old slate roof with a round chimney on the east end. Attached to the west end is a stone rubble barn and shippon, both under a continuous roof. The east end has a low two-storey addition from the 19th century, which includes a bay window. The main central portion of the farmhouse is three storeys high, with two doors located under lean-to porches, three small windows on the first floor, and two on the second floor. The section to the west has four larger windows on each floor. The interior is said to be good.

Local climate

Wood Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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