Barn Opposite Miresykes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Barn.
Barn Opposite Miresykes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-eave-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn Opposite Miresykes Farmhouse, Loweswater, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 121 224
- Coordinates
- 54.58995, -3.36031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn located opposite Miresykes Farmhouse, dating from the early 18th century with later extensions. The barn features roughcast slate rubble walls topped with corrugated asbestos roofs. It is a single-storey structure with a lower extension on the right and a higher byre extension also on the right. There is a large projecting cart entrance and a plank door on the left. The upper left side has pigeon holes with projecting slate shelves. The right extension includes a full-height doorway opening, which is separated by a slate shelf, and a similar doorway that is now partly blocked, leaving a loft opening. There are small openings on the right side as well. The left extension has a loft doorway opening and a small opening with a chamfered surround. The left return wall also features pigeon holes with slate shelves. Inside, there are indications that the roof has been raised in height. This barn is listed for its group value with Miresykes Farmhouse.
Local climate
Barn Opposite Miresykes Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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