Caffle House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. A C17 Farmhouse, cafe.

Caffle House

WRENN ID
sharp-rubblework-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
Farmhouse, cafe
Address
Caffle House, Borrowdale, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 275 163
Coordinates
54.53693, -3.12071
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Caffle House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house and café. It dates from the late 17th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building features painted slate rubble walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes a large square slate chimney stack. It is two storeys high and has five bays. There is a 20th-century door in a plain opening beneath a painted stone lintel, and 20th-century windows in plain reveals, all under wooden lintels. The left bay is open and serves as a wood store. At the rear, there are three 19th-century gabled extensions. Inside, the property boasts a beamed ceiling, an inglenook fireplace with a hood, a heck partition, a panelled spice cupboard, and a recess for a salt cupboard. Additionally, a former external 17th-century studded plank door is now displayed as an internal wall feature.

Local climate

Caffle House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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