Harkness Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Barn.
Harkness Barn
- WRENN ID
- keen-hammer-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Harkness Barn, Caldbeck, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 323 397
- Coordinates
- 54.74823, -3.05198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harkness Barn is an early 19th-century barn constructed from coursed mixed limestone and sandstone rubble, featuring flush quoins and a Welsh slate roof. This long single-storey barn has a central cart entrance with plank doors set in an alternate-block surround beneath a keyed segmental arch. To the right of this entrance, there is another plank door in an alternate-block surround. The left end wall includes a large plank cart entrance. The right wall features a louvred vent opening and a loft doorway situated beneath pigeon holes. At the rear, there is an outshut that has a 20th-century side garage door and stone-surround casement windows. The barn is listed partly for its group value with the nearby John Peel Inn and Bridge House.
Local climate
Harkness Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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