Greenbank Farmhouse and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. A C17 Farmhouse, cottage.
Greenbank Farmhouse and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-glass-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Greenbank Farmhouse and Cottage, Aynsome Lane, Broughton East, South Lakeland
- OS grid reference
- SD 380 803
- Coordinates
- 54.21523, -2.95103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenbank Farmhouse and Cottage is a pair of houses dated 1663, as indicated by the lintel. The building is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has four bays, with the first bay serving as a cottage. Most windows are sashed with glazing bars and horns, although the ground floor of the cottage and the first floor of the third bay feature small paned fixed glazing with top-hung lights. The cottage has an entrance at the return of a gabled porch, while the house has a half-glazed door beneath a dated lintel with flanking console brackets, and a porch under an asymmetrical gable with a four-fielded-panel door. There are gable-end stacks and a large cross-axial stack. The rear of the building has two gabled wings made of stone rubble, with the left wing projecting. Casement windows are present in these wings.
Inside, there is a stone fireplace with a corbelled lintel, a moulded opening, and a cornice. The staircase features fluted square newels, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail, along with fielded panelling and flat fluted pilasters. The first floor retains original two-panel doors. The cottage includes ovolo beams, a fireplace with fielded panelling above the bressummer, and an inserted stair. An inventory from 1723 mentions a new kitchen.
Local climate
Greenbank Farmhouse and Cottage 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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