Lowthwaite is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Lowthwaite
- WRENN ID
- lesser-spandrel-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lowthwaite, Ireby and Uldale, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 262 355
- Coordinates
- 54.70969, -3.14687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowthwaite is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features painted rubble walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, with rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. There is a 20th-century door set in a painted stone surround. The windows are Yorkshire sash style with glazing bars, also framed in painted stone surrounds with flattened segmental arches. At the rear, there is a full-width extension.
Local climate
Lowthwaite sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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