Southerfell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. Farmhouse.
Southerfell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-trefoil-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Southerfell Farmhouse, Mungrisdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 359 278
- Coordinates
- 54.64207, -2.99397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southerfell Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dated 1666, with significant alterations made in the early 19th century. The building features painted roughcast walls and a sandstone eaves cornice, topped by a graduated greenslate roof with a rendered chimney stack. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The entrance has a 20th-century door and sash windows set within 19th-century painted stone surrounds, with a small window located to the left of the entrance. The farmhouse is included for its group value with the adjoining Southerfell Cottage on the right.
Local climate
Southerfell Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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