Howbeck House and Former Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Howbeck House and Former Barn

WRENN ID
blind-portal-dust
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 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Howbeck House and Former Barn, Caldbeck, Cumberland, CA7 8JN
OS grid reference
NY 344 385
Coordinates
54.73782, -3.019
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Howbeck House is a late 18th-century farmhouse, now a private house, situated alongside a former barn. The house has roughcast walls painted with a graduated greenslate roof and stone chimney stacks. The barn is constructed of mixed limestone and split cobbles, with raised quoins and a graduated greenslate roof.

The main house is two storeys high with two bays. To the right stands a lower, three-bay former barn. A top-glazed panelled door sits within a painted architrave, topped by a console bracketed hood. Sash windows with glazing bars are set within painted stone architraves, with plain stone surrounds on the upper floor.

The barn features a large, central cart entrance with plank doors within an alternate block surround, all beneath a segmental arch. A smaller, similarly styled archway is located to the left. A 20th-century door is placed to the extreme left, and a plank door to the extreme right, both set within alternate-block surrounds. Slit vents below the eaves are distinguished by brick surrounds.

The rear of the house, facing the road, incorporates a top-glazed panelled door, sash windows, and casement windows, all within painted stone surrounds. A lower extension to the barn includes a 20th-century door and a small sash window, both set in a painted stone surround.

Local climate

Howbeck House and Former Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2010
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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