Birk Howe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. House.
Birk Howe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-flint-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birk Howe Farmhouse, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 313 032
- Coordinates
- 54.42036, -3.05875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birk Howe Farmhouse is a 17th-century building constructed from white-washed stone rubble and topped with a slate roof featuring a large chimney. The farmhouse has two low storeys and includes a gabled open porch. On the ground floor, there are three deeply set windows with wooden mullions, consisting of 3, 4, and 5 lights. Above, there are three small modern casement windows. To the right (south) is a stable that shares the same roof. To the left is a former cottage, now part of the house, which is slightly lower and has a gabled porch, two ground floor windows (one with 18 panes and one new), and three new casement windows above. There is also a lean-to stone shed at the left end. Inside, the farmhouse features an original chimney flue made of lath and plaster and a circular stair.
Local climate
Birk Howe Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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