Woodhow Farmhouse with Attached Byres, Area Walls and Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Farmhouse.
Woodhow Farmhouse with Attached Byres, Area Walls and Pump
- WRENN ID
- second-lantern-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 140 042
- Coordinates
- 54.42606, -3.32704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodhow Farmhouse is a 18th-century farmhouse with an adjoining byre range and a pump located at the southeast angle of the area wall. The house is dated 1757, as indicated on the porch head, and features the initials W. & D.N. The lead pump head is dated 1826 and bears the initials S. & R.E. The farmhouse has undergone later additions and alterations. It is constructed of pebble-dashed rubble, while the byres are made of slobbered, coursed rubble with quoins. The building has graduated slate roofs and rendered end chimneys.
The two-storey farmhouse has three bays, with a central plank door in a porch that has monolithic stone cheeks and a moulded head. To the left of the door is a casement window, and to the right is a single sash window, with two additional windows located above, all set in stone surrounds. The three-bay byre range features three plank doors and two small fixed windows, along with two loft accesses above. In front of the house, there is a coursed rubble area wall approximately 2.5 meters high, and the lead pump, which is now disconnected, is housed in a stone structure made of monolithic slabs with a shaped head.
Local climate
Woodhow Farmhouse with Attached Byres, Area Walls and Pump 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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