Barkbeth Horse Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1993. Engine house.
Barkbeth Horse Engine House
- WRENN ID
- other-sandstone-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1993
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Barkbeth Horse Engine House, Bassenthwaite, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 241 312
- Coordinates
- 54.67067, -3.17756
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barkbeth Horse Engine House is a horse engine house built in the early to mid 19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is supported by monolithic stone pillars, which are connected in some areas by rubble stone walling, all beneath a hipped Westmorland slate roof. It is a single-storey building with two bays and a canted bay at the north end to accommodate the circular path of the drive horse. The spaces between the pillars have been infilled with 20th-century sheeting and boarding. Inside, a wide tie beam truss connects the parallel sections of the sidewalls and supports ties to the faceted end wallplate. There are parallel beams at right angles to the principal tie beam that extend into the sidewall of an adjacent outbuilding. Additionally, remnants of former drive shaft supports can be found attached to the roof timbering.
Local climate
Barkbeth Horse Engine House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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