Waterfoot Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse, barn. 2 related planning applications.

Waterfoot Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining

WRENN ID
scattered-lead-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1986
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Waterfoot Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining, CA11 0JF
OS grid reference
NY 462 250
Coordinates
54.61813, -2.83411
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Waterfoot Farmhouse and the adjoining barn date back to 1678, with some alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse features whitewashed rubble walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes whitewashed stone chimney stacks. The chimney on the right side is from the 17th century and has projecting slate drip stones. The barn has walls made of mixed slate and cobble rubble, also covered by a graduated greenslate roof.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with the lower right section serving partly as a barn. A cross-passage doorway features a 20th-century door set in a chamfered surround beneath a Tudor lintel with a hoodmould. There is a three-light chamfered stone-mullioned window, while the other windows are sash types, some of which are double-glazed, all set in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. Blocked original windows can be identified by their individual hoodmoulds, and there are continuous hoodmoulds on the ground floor. A blocked fire window from the 17th century is located within a blocked window on the upper floor to the right. The barn has large central plank doors and an open gable end, and its interior features two pairs of upper crucks.

Local climate

Waterfoot Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 87% 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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