Brow Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Brow Top Farmhouse

WRENN ID
mired-tower-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 August 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Brow Top Farmhouse, Kentmere, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 9JL
OS grid reference
NY 457 042
Coordinates
54.43103, -2.83792
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brow Top Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse with limewashed slate rubble walls and a graduated greenslate roof. It features end chimneys with slate drips and stands two storeys tall with three windows. The central gabled stone porch has a round arched opening, slate benches, and a boarded door. To the right of the porch is an early 19th-century small-paned fixed-light window with a single opening pane, while to the left is a late 19th-century sash window. Above, there are 20th-century casement windows.

Local climate

Brow Top Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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