Wham Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Farmhouse.
Wham Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-chimney-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wham Head Farmhouse, Mungrisdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 374 342
- Coordinates
- 54.6992, -2.97209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wham Head Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse that has been altered, with a date inscribed above the entrance indicating the year 1838. The building features cement rendered walls, an eaves cornice, and V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth, all made from red sandstone. It has a graduated greenslate roof topped with yellow brick chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has three bays. The entrance includes a 20th-century door framed by a red sandstone architrave with a keystone frieze beneath a segmental pediment. The windows are double sash with glazing bars, and there is a similar single window above the entrance, all surrounded by red sandstone.
Local climate
Wham Head Farmhouse 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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