Mire Side is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse.

Mire Side

WRENN ID
pale-newel-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Mire Side, Bassenthwaite, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 226 307
Coordinates
54.66599, -3.20071
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mire Side is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century. It features painted roughcast walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes yellow brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance consists of a plank door set in a plain opening, while the windows are fixed-light and have plain reveals. Inside, there is an inglenook with a firebeam and beamed ceilings on the ground floor. At the rear, there is an outshut. An adjoining barn to the right is not of interest.

Local climate

Mire Side sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 93% 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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