Derwent Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse.

Derwent Farmhouse

WRENN ID
roaming-steeple-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Derwent Farmhouse, Borrowdale, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 252 174
Coordinates
54.54656, -3.15655
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Derwent Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It features painted rendered walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, which has a large square rendered stone chimney stack from the 17th century and a smaller chimney stack from the 20th century. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a top-glazed six-panel door with a 20th-century side light, situated under a wooden lintel within a slate-slab gabled porch. The windows are casements with glazing bars set in plain reveals, and there is a smaller fire window on the ground floor to the right. Inside, there is an inglenook with a massive firebeam, a heck partition, and a salt cupboard recess. Both ground-floor rooms have beamed ceilings, with the joists in the left room supported by a massive beam. A right-angled extension to the left and barns to the right are not of interest.

Local climate

Derwent Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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