Seat Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House. 1 related planning application.
Seat Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- scarred-corbel-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Seat Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Barn, Barton and Pooley Bridge, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 2NA
- OS grid reference
- NY 461 222
- Coordinates
- 54.59287, -2.8346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seat Farmhouse, a cottage, and an attached barn, likely date from the late 17th or early 18th century, as evidenced by lintels inscribed with the years 1662 and 1779. The building is constructed of stone rubble, with the main house portion limewashed, and has slate roofs. It is arranged in an L-shape, with a connecting outbuilding at an angle linking the houses and barn. The west-facing elevation is two storeys and three plus two bays, with the fourth and fifth bays forming a cottage that was originally an outbuilding. Windows are mostly sash windows with single glazing bars within chamfered reveals, although the third bay of the ground floor has a 20th-century casement and the first bay of the first floor has a paired sash window. The entrance to the second bay has a key-inscribed lintel dated “E ' MT/1779”, with a boarded door. The cottage incorporates a large glazed entrance and two casements above, along with a stepped entrance leading to a lower ground level. A gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack are present. The outbuilding features a canted-forward design, with an elliptical arched entrance and flanking windows. The north elevation of the barn has a central elliptical-headed entrance with a key inscription “W & AS/1731,” along with end entrances and inserted windows. Ventilation slots are present, and the roof structure incorporates collar and tie beams to the trusses. The east elevation has a continuous outshut under a catslide roof. Fenestration is varied, including a two-light single-chamfered-mullioned stair window and two windows with small-paned fixed glazing. A small wing to the east, consisting of a gabled outbuilding, is now connected to the house and features a dated lintel from 1662.
Local climate
Seat Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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