Sawrey Ground Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Farmhouse.
Sawrey Ground Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-span-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sawrey Ground Farmhouse, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 335 991
- Coordinates
- 54.38325, -3.02472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sawrey Ground Farmhouse is a farmhouse that features a datestone inscribed with "AS 1627/JOHN SWAINSON 1730/REBUILT TCCE 1901". The building is made of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and consists of three bays, with an attached one-storey, two-bay wing on the south-east side. The ground floor windows have dripcourses, and the first bay includes a fire window to the left; all windows are fitted with casements. The entrance is marked by a slate slab porch, which has the datestone positioned above the door. The farmhouse has gable-end stacks. The wing features two buttresses on the west side and a window on the south side. At the rear, there is a gabled wing with slate dripcourses and a lean-to porch situated in the angle. The farmhouse is included for its group value.
Local climate
Sawrey Ground Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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