Old Windebrowe and adjoining barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1979. Farmhouse, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Old Windebrowe and adjoining barn
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-loggia-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Old Windebrowe and adjoining barn, CA12 4NT
- OS grid reference
- NY 276 240
- Coordinates
- 54.60626, -3.12122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Windebrowe and the adjoining barn are a farmhouse and barn, now serving as a museum and exhibition area, part of an outdoor centre for disabled people. The farmhouse likely dates from the early 18th century, while the barn is from the late 18th century and underwent extensive alterations during that time. The Calvert Trust renovated the buildings in 1980. The structure is built from mixed rubble, primarily slate boulders with some hand-made bricks, featuring flush split slate quoins and small galleting pieces. The roofs are made of graduated greenslate and there are rendered chimney stacks.
The building is two storeys high and originally U-shaped, though the centre has been filled in. The barn to the right has 11 bays and includes byres underneath. The house has two 20th-century doors in plain openings and sash windows with glazing bars set in plain reveals. There is a side top-glazed door within a gabled porch. The barn features an excavated passage at the front with two cart doorways, flanked by a pent extension, accessible via slab bridges over the passage. The interior floors of the barn were updated in 1980 and are all on one level, including kitchen and toilet facilities. An additional extension to the barn with 20th-century windows is not of interest. The buildings are listed for their connections to the Calvert family and their literary guests, including Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge.
Local climate
Old Windebrowe and adjoining barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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